July 2008
18 posts
“In a word: Wordpress kinda sucks nowadays. Its retarded upgrade rate makes it...”
– sagt der Entwickler des populären Spam-Karma-Plugins. Recht hat er.
Dave’s Blog » Blog Archive » Spam Karma goes GPL
“Die Medien- und Diskussionskultur in Deutschland unterscheiden sich signifikant...”
– TP: Anschwellender Blogsgesang
“Die EU-Kommission will die Schutzrechte für Tonaufnahmen von 50 auf 95 Jahre...”
– netzpolitik.org: » Urheberrechts-Debatte: 95 Jahre, Warnbriefe und die Kulturflatrate » Aktuelle Berichterstattung rund um die politischen Themen der Informationsgesellschaft.
“In the blogging game, there are two typical winners: The person who gets the...”
– The Secret to Captivating Content? More Cowbell! | Copyblogger
“Our commenting systems really suck. I didn’t realize just how badly they sucked...”
– Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Has/How/Why tech blogging has failed you «
“Der Kommentar ist nicht veröffentlicht worden, weil er im Spamfilter hängen...”
– clever
91 % aller Ausrufezeichen sind über « Stefan Niggemeier
“Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New Bubble To Invest In”
– hahaha
Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New Bubble To Invest In | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
Angry users
marco:
You wouldn’t believe how angry many people are when they send Instapaper.app support emails.
People seem personally offended that they don’t understand how something works. They swear at me. They insult me. They taunt me. They throw the problem back in my face with no explanation.
You can see a lot of this in the negative reviews of nearly any app in the App Store, too.
They refuse to...
“Perhaps the biggest incongruity that came from the announcements about it, is...”
– EU to Extend Copyright, Break Royalty Monopolies | TorrentFreak
Kurt Vonnegut: How to Write With Style →
cubicle17:
Why should you examine your writing style with the idea of improving it? Do so as a mark of respect for your readers, whatever you’re writing. If you scribble your thoughts any which way, your readers will surely feel that you care nothing about them. They will mark you down as an egomaniac or a chowderhead —- or, worse, they will stop reading you.
“CheapEasyGlobal is the big story. And it’s here now. It has arrived. And...”
– gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”: cheap. easy. global. media.
“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger...”
– Richard Cook (via muhh)
Steven Frank on Blogging →
cubicle17:
Steven Frank, of Panic, explains the “existential crisis” he’s having when it comes to blogging:
Depending on which side of the bed I wake up on, blogging is either the vainest possible act of self-puffery, practiced by those who want to believe they are a lot more important than they actually are, or an unprecedented revolution in human communication, no less important of a...
“Das Verhältnis zwischen Benzinkutschen und Eisenbahnen ist ein hübsches Beispiel...”
– TV und Internet - Fernsehen, sei umschlungen! - Kultur - sueddeutsche.de
“Mal zur Frage, ob muxtape legal ist: natürlich, solange man das, wenn auch...”
– Muxtape - Code Candies