30 September 2011 0 Comments

Disguising thoughts that aren’t there

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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts. — Voltaire (1694 – 1778), Dialogue, XIV, “Le Chapon et la Poularde” (1766) Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. — George Eliot (1819 – 1880) The other day, I wrote [...]

8 September 2011 2 Comments

Creeping with the enemy

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For a long time, we’ve been watching Microsoft do its thing. We remember everyone having a 5.25-inch floppy with MS-DOS on it, as it was passed from PC to PC, spreading like kudzu across the nascent industry of localized computing. Whether Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Co. allowed that to happen deliberately or whether it [...]

3 August 2011 1 Comment

People Will Pay

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Our colleague Gary Weyel wrote a nice little post the other day about the success the New York Times is having with its paywall.  The point Mr Weyel makes is people are willing to pay for quality content on the Internet, and that the Times‘ brand is such that it might as well define “quality” [...]