On today’s The Loop, Jim Dalrymple posted a story called “Disagreements and comments. I found it interesting if only because I’m a big fan of a web site that has a well run commenting system.Jim agreed to do 10 good minutes with his thoughts on commenting in general and on The Loop specifically.
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You should consider having sex with a bearded man
Don’t be scared.
How not to win friends and influence people
Public relations is an indispensable tool for a company to help shape public opinion about its products, services and identity. So stories like this are shocking. And if you think that Ocean Marketing CEO Paul Christoforo was just having a … Continued
‘Say good morning to Jimmy Hoffa, boys’
New York Post:
“When Tony Jack passed the middle point of the bridge… he nodded toward the huge tower’s foundation,” Humphreys writes.“Say good morning to Jimmy Hoffa, boys,” he said.
GoDaddy accused of thwarting domain transfers
Jason Snell for Macworld:
In a post on its blog, fellow domain registrar Namecheap reports that customers trying to transfer their domains away from GoDaddy are being delayed. The post accuses GoDaddy of “returning incomplete WHOIS information” as a part of the transfer process, a practice which is against the rules of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the process manager for the domain-name system.
I transferred a domain from GoDaddy last week and it went just fine. However, after losing more than 72,000 in five days, things may have changed.
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GoDaddy loses 72,354 domains in five days
TNW:
It looks like these PR moves to save face, and business, are completely futile. According to TheDomains, 21,054 domains were transferred away from Go Daddy on Friday alone. At $6.99 a pop, that would make for a loss of $147,167, not taking future renewals into account.
I started transferring my domains just before Christmas.
Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA
Go Daddy is no longer supporting SOPA, the “Stop Online Piracy Act” currently working its way through U.S. Congress.“Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation – but we can clearly do better,” Warren Adelman, Go Daddy’s newly appointed CEO, said. “It’s very important that all Internet stakeholders work together on this. Getting it right is worth the wait. Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it.”
Win.
Bacon Christmas Tree
Merry Christmas Peter.
List of SOPA supporting companies
If you were wondering which companies were supporting SOPA, MediaBeat has a complete list.
Volcanic activity in 2011
The Atlantic:
Out of an estimated 1,500 active volcanoes around the world, 50 or so erupt every year, spewing steam, ash, toxic gases, and lava. In 2011, active volcanoes included Chile’s Puyehue, Japan’s Shinmoedake, Indonesia’s Lokon, Iceland’s Grímsvötn, Italy’s Etna, and recently Nyamulagira in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In Hawaii, Kilauea continues to send lava flowing toward the sea, and the ocean floor has been erupting near the Canary Islands. Collected below are scenes from the wide variety of volcanic activity on Earth over the past year
These pictures are just stunning.
Cat vs Dog: A Trick Contest
I have two border collies — they’ll win every time.
Douchebaggery
This is not how you launch a startup.
Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree
I used to watch this every year. The video certainly brings back memories.
AT&T drops bid for T-Mobile
The actions by the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice to block this transaction do not change the realities of the U.S. wireless industry. It is one of the most fiercely competitive industries in the world, with a mounting need for more spectrum that has not diminished and must be addressed immediately. The AT&T and T-Mobile USA combination would have offered an interim solution to this spectrum shortage. In the absence of such steps, customers will be harmed and needed investment will be stifled.
Skype sponsors free Wi-Fi for holiday travelers
Frederic Lardinois for SiliconFilter: From December 21st thru December 27th, Skype (and, by extension, Microsoft), will offer free access to third-party WiFi hotspots through its Skype WiFi program in over 50 airports all across the U.S. You sign in using … Continued
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Fusion Garage goes AWOL
Nilay Patel for The Verge: It appears that the wild story of Fusion Garage has come to a sadly ignominious close: the manufacturer of the failed JooJoo and Grid10 tablets has all but disappeared, leaving behind only a database error … Continued
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Why RIM needs to fire its co-CEOs
Tom Krazit for paidContent.org: As they tried once again Thursday evening to urge financial analysts to look ahead to a brighter future while once again delaying the release of a crucial product, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis failed to give … Continued
R2-D2 Heineken keg
Knowing my love of Heineken, Igor Venturi sent me this picture today. I must have one of these.
Google’s 2011 Zeitgeist
This year marks our 11th annual look back at the searches that compose the year’s Zeitgeist—the spirit of the time. With Zeitgeist, we look at the most popular and the fastest rising terms—the terms with the highest growth in 2011—in many categories across many countries around the world.
Tech reporters on their craft
Hunter Walk has rounded up some comments from prominent technology journalists about what they think about the state of tech journalism today. Apple comes up a couple of times. for example: Jason Kincaid, TechCrunch: “… if you compare the traffic … Continued
Time’s Person of the Year
While I, of course, agree that the protests this year were of enormous significance, I cannot help but feel that this award is somewhat contrived.The inclusion of the Occupy movements across the United States in the same article as the bloody overthrow of Gaddafi? Seems a bit much.
I’ve seen a number of comments similar to this today.
24 percent of EU citizens have never used the Internet
Claire Davenport for the Globe and Mail: Almost a quarter of the European Union’s 500 million people have never used the Internet and there is a widening division between the web-savvy north of Europe and the poorer south and east, … Continued
Microsoft co-founder launches space project
Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen is planning to build a spaceship that could replace the Space Shuttle and put paying passengers into orbit this decade.
I think I’ll wait a little bit.
Nokia can’t give its phones away
Om Malik talking about his trip to Helsinki: Walking around the downtown (where I am staying), I have seen many more iPhones than Nokia phones. And most of the startup people I met have some variation of the iPhone. One … Continued
FCC to ban loud TV ads
Consumer Reports: The Federal Communications Commission will pass regulations today to limit the volume levels of TV commercials and penalize broadcasters that bombard consumers with loud ads between televised shows and programs. We live in a fairly small house with … Continued
2011 Best App Ever Awards
The Best App Ever Awards were created to celebrate the best mobile apps and games available, as chosen by our readers. Our goal is to help gather together the very favorite apps of the real users, not just the best-selling ones. This year we are making a big change, including Android applications and games in the mix. For each category there will be winners in iOS (both iPhone and iPad combined) and Android divisions.
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