Comments on: Crowdsourcing news – more or less bias?

By: John K

John K — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:25:56 +0000

Thank you.

By: Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:12:55 +0000

Gannett Roundup: The Blogs

There was far more commentary than I could begin to digest, but it seemed like a worthwhile project to try to build a compendium, however incomplete, of the more trenchant takes on Gannett’s Seven Desk Plan. I’ve split reactions into

By: John K

John K — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 21:42:22 +0000

OK – some good news: It looks better here on my glorious big screens at work.

I do think the typography hurts you (can I get some more line spacing please). (And yes, my own blog ain’t so great either…) Here’s an idea:

A CONTEST!

Yes. Let’s put on a contest to get you a design worth loving. I volunteer … $50. You could sell some space on your blogroll to raise funds. Maybe get the pool up to $1000, and have a contest to redesign your CSS.

News of that would RULE IN LINKBAIT as well… if you cared about that sorta thing.

By: Greg Yardley

Greg Yardley — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 05:17:29 +0000

Now, now, Seth invited me into this social media network and I’m curious to see what it does. Apparently there’s a feed out there with my entries, a bunch of other people’s entries, and some ads. I’m interested in seeing if they make any money – my guess is ‘no’ but who knows?

As for the latest skin, I’m going to keep the general style, I think, but rejig it so it doesn’t look like ass on lower resolutions than my 1200 x 800. Maybe that means I’ll chop a sidebar.

I do like the law.

By: John K

John K — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 05:02:50 +0000

“Maybe it’s my nature, but whenever I hear about a new initiative I start thinking about ways to game it.”

Actually, it’s not just you. I think this is a fundamental law of the internet, similar to say, the 1st law of thermodynamics.

The law would be something like:

Anything created on the internet simultaneously creates proportional efforts to exploit it.

Pithy corollarys include (I’m quoting myself from back around 2002): “He who corrupts the blogosphere fastest and hardest will become very rich.”

Who did that? Why Google, of course (via AdSense).

(PS. I’m still hoping this new skin for yardley.ca is a nightmare from which I will soon awake. A sidebar heading called “Social Media”?!? AAAGGHHH!!!).