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Month / September 2007
Nothing Changed at All; Micropayments Simply Don’t Work
New York Times: “What changed, The Times said, was that many more readers started coming to the site from search engines and links on other sites instead of coming directly to NYTimes.com. These indirect readers, unable to get access to articles behind the pay wall and less likely to pay subscription fees than the more loyal direct users, were seen as opportunities for more page views and increased advertising revenue.”
Okay, This Facebook Thing is Out of Control
I just sent an Add Friend request to Jonathan Franzen. Whether he will be my friend or not, who can say? But if Franzen is on Facebook, is it safe to say that Facebook has jumped the shark?
(And if Rick Moody can be my Facebook friend, then surely Jonathan Franzen can!)
[UPDATE: This just in. Leonard Cohen is on Facebook. What the fuck?]
They Really, Really Don’t Like Me
1.2 Million Dead — You Are Responsible for This
Intellience Daily: “When those responsible for the American war in Iraq face a public reckoning for their colossal crimes, the weekend of September 15-16, 2007 will be an important piece of evidence against them. On Friday, September 14 there were brief press reports of a scientific survey by the British polling organization ORB, which resulted in an estimate of 1.2 million violent deaths in Iraq since the US invasion.”
1.2 million.
Think about that. That’s the entire population of Dallas. Or San Diego. Or San Antonio. Imagine. All wiped out.
If this isn’t genocide, I don’t know what is.
The only newspapers to report this figure were the Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe. Nothing whatsoever from The New York Times or the Washington Post.
I am sickened to be part of a country that doesn’t act to stop this carnage. That looks the other way. That doesn’t move to stop these barbarians. That doesn’t contemplate its own actions.
Report this figure. Tell others about this figure. Be reminded every day of this figure.
History will not judge Bush well. But I suspect it will judge us more harshly. 1.2 million? If this is even half-true, then we deserve everything we get because of our representative apathy. So what are we going to do? What are you going to do?