As someone whose immune system is already doing this (Crohn's Disease), I welcome this research, it'd be awesome if they could turn this part of the immune response off.
Heck, I don't mind this one bit - I'm flying through Seattle with a 10 hour layover next Tuesday, and I was hoping to be able to pick up an iPad without paying sales tax (residents of certain other states don't pay sales tax in WA). I know the last time I was there, in October, I was able to find iPhones for my parents at a Best Buy in Bellevue (right next to Redmond), and I'm hoping I'll be able to pick up an iPad at the same place.
And there's the difference - A sadly large number of people's experience with elk is the elk that someone shot, threw in the back of their truck, then drove 12 hours before cleaning it. The best wild game (deer, not elk, but same principle) I've had was shot on a friends ranch, cleaned at the nearest tree, then immediately taken inside, wrapped, and frozen (to await the cwd results, of course).
I was about to add a comment about this until I found yours - this is how you attract the best - make it someplace that the best want to work at because they can do cool stuff, not just because it can add to the bottom dollar in the next six months, but because it's COOL.
As much as I dislike the commenting community of Gizmodo, Gawker, etc., I love the community on Lifehacker. There's a lot of discourse between the authors, mods, and readers, and a definite lack of hatred. This probably comes from the smaller audience, both targeted and attracted, which allows a user to build a reputation and get to know each other. Give it a look, before you damn his whole system. I just wish that if he goes down, Lifehacker somehow gets spun off into something independent.
Gawker, Jezebel, Gizmodo, io9 and Lifehacker have none of the above -- and if they have moderation it is heavy handed deletionary censorship. So all they get is drive-by shootings or white panel vans with painted over windows offering free candy.
As a regular of lifehacker, I dispute the way you placed it in the same category as gawker, jezebel, and gizmodo. The larger sites, with the larger audiences, attract a readership with a shorter attention span, who just come for the headlines. Denton himself (though I can't find the source at the moment, will keep looking) said that Lifehacker is one place where comments have succeeded - there's a lot of good discourse that happens there, and often gets incorporated back into the articles themselves. The other ones, I don't bother with the comments anymore.
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As someone whose immune system is already doing this (Crohn's Disease), I welcome this research, it'd be awesome if they could turn this part of the immune response off.
Heck, I don't mind this one bit - I'm flying through Seattle with a 10 hour layover next Tuesday, and I was hoping to be able to pick up an iPad without paying sales tax (residents of certain other states don't pay sales tax in WA). I know the last time I was there, in October, I was able to find iPhones for my parents at a Best Buy in Bellevue (right next to Redmond), and I'm hoping I'll be able to pick up an iPad at the same place.
well-prepared elk is astoundingly delicious
And there's the difference - A sadly large number of people's experience with elk is the elk that someone shot, threw in the back of their truck, then drove 12 hours before cleaning it. The best wild game (deer, not elk, but same principle) I've had was shot on a friends ranch, cleaned at the nearest tree, then immediately taken inside, wrapped, and frozen (to await the cwd results, of course).
I was about to add a comment about this until I found yours - this is how you attract the best - make it someplace that the best want to work at because they can do cool stuff, not just because it can add to the bottom dollar in the next six months, but because it's COOL.
As much as I dislike the commenting community of Gizmodo, Gawker, etc., I love the community on Lifehacker. There's a lot of discourse between the authors, mods, and readers, and a definite lack of hatred. This probably comes from the smaller audience, both targeted and attracted, which allows a user to build a reputation and get to know each other. Give it a look, before you damn his whole system. I just wish that if he goes down, Lifehacker somehow gets spun off into something independent.
Gawker, Jezebel, Gizmodo, io9 and Lifehacker have none of the above -- and if they have moderation it is heavy handed deletionary censorship. So all they get is drive-by shootings or white panel vans with painted over windows offering free candy.
As a regular of lifehacker, I dispute the way you placed it in the same category as gawker, jezebel, and gizmodo. The larger sites, with the larger audiences, attract a readership with a shorter attention span, who just come for the headlines. Denton himself (though I can't find the source at the moment, will keep looking) said that Lifehacker is one place where comments have succeeded - there's a lot of good discourse that happens there, and often gets incorporated back into the articles themselves. The other ones, I don't bother with the comments anymore.