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Indeed. I've had two full-fledged editorials published in my local paper, with by-line, photograph, and all. The more recent one, on Microsoft's culpability for the Love Bug (which I've posted the text of here) was given about 1/3 of a page, and they added an editorial cartoon to it. Very nice; even my UPS carrier has told me he liked it.
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And what would you call a site like Themestream that lets anybody post anything they want and then pays them a dime a hit (during its 'preview'; will probably drop to two cents a hit afterward) for it? Open, because anyone can write for it? Closed, because it pays them by the popularity of what they write?

By and large, I think this article continues a trend I've already noted in your work of telling us what we already know. By and large, we're already net-savvy people, Jon. I think that many of the people who regularly bash you find your articles like this to be quite patronizing.
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And what would you call a site like Themestream that lets anybody post anything they want and then pays them a dime a hit (during its 'preview'; will probably drop to two cents a hit afterward) for it? Open, because anyone can write for it? Closed, because it pays them by the popularity of what they write?

By and large, I think this article continues a trend I've already noted in your work of telling us what we already know. By and large, we're already net-savvy people, Jon. I think that many of the people who regularly bash you find your articles like this to be quite patronizing.
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Now that I think about it, I sort of wish I could put a tipjar on some of my Themestream articles, like the one about Jon Katz, but I think that might be a violation of contract or something. But at least they pay me a dime a hit, and they don't seem to have any banner ads so far (I imagine they might add them once they get out of their trial period, though). (That's another way individual authors, at least, could make money off the web, I suppose...)

Another interesting new model built on similar ground to the Street Performers' Protocol is the Storytellers' Bowl, which is going to accept PayPal and publish stories on a supported-by-patron-donation basis. I'm really looking forward to its launch.

And by the way, for whoever wrote the copy quoted in the story blurb--Junkbuster isn't new; it's been around for several years at least.
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Now that I think about it, I sort of wish I could put a tipjar on some of my Themestream articles, like the one about Jon Katz, but I think that might be a violation of contract or something. But at least they pay me a dime a hit, and they don't seem to have any banner ads so far (I imagine they might add them once they get out of their trial period, though). (That's another way individual authors, at least, could make money off the web, I suppose...)

Another interesting new model built on similar ground to the Street Performers' Protocol is the Storytellers' Bowl, which is going to accept PayPal and publish stories on a supported-by-patron-donation basis. I'm really looking forward to its launch.

And by the way, for whoever wrote the copy quoted in the story blurb--Junkbuster isn't new; it's been around for several years at least.
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I don't know that this is entirely accurate. Microsoft's policy as I see it has been to break standards, and use it's position to force acceptance of the new version.

The lastest fiasco with Kerebros is an excellent example of this, and to a lesser extent WINS as a form of DNS. There are many others.

Martin Burke
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Anyone ignorant enough to think that an IT department does the same thing at, say, an insurance company versus a heavy manufacturing firm deserves to have live weasels shoved up their ass.

Peter Berger - in defense of dubbing in Anime.