Maziar Bahari describing his Iranian interrogator and revolutionary guard.
Bahari was jailed under the ridiculous assumption that he was a spy because of working with Jason Jones of the Daily Show on this sketch.
Maziar Bahari describing his Iranian interrogator and revolutionary guard.
Bahari was jailed under the ridiculous assumption that he was a spy because of working with Jason Jones of the Daily Show on this sketch.
They’re both right.
Murphy’s model sucks and will drive people away from the people who use it, and Pete is a hypocrite for posting ads on Twitter and bashing Murphy for doing the same thing.
Pete’s explanation doesn’t hold weight to me. Unfortunately you’ll never really know if money or favors are traded for tweets or blog posts or magazine articles or newspaper columns for that matter.
It’s ultimately up to the reader to be smart enough to figure it out, the most effective kind of advertising is the kind you don’t even realize is an advertisement, which makes these models more transparent but ultimately more obtrusive and ineffective.
I’m less concerned about ruining the user experience, since it makes it easier for me to weed people out of my reading list by their blatant hucksterism, than I am by the lack of creativity and common sense about effective business models for advertising.
I’ll believe it when I experience it.
Jersey at #8 with a bullet.
Not only is AOL basing its entire dismal future on the most base sort of styrofoam traffic-whoring; it’s not even whoring in a new way. Demand Media, for one, has long been doing the exact same thing, with an algorithm-plus-sweatshop editorial production line that makes Gawker Media look like Aristotle’s School of Taking Your Sweet Time Thinking About Things.
Ah well. Neither useless crap on the internet nor AOL sucking is anything new.
” —Hamilton NolanPaul Krugman (via azspot) (via shorterexcerpts)
The urgency to bailout “too big to fail” banks and the lack of urgency to bailout people who WANT to work is criminal.
You and me both, pal.
The city’s street gangs are becoming tweet gangs.
Manhattan’s young thugs have turned to Twitter, and the cops who track them are fast behind, the Daily News has learned.
It’s old-school crime meets new technology: attacks being plotted - and thwarted - 140 characters at a time.
One investigator recently warned parents and teens that the bastion of OMG and LOL has been infiltrated by violent crews waging turf wars.