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Inside Story — how not to learn from #nymwars

Inside Story — how not to learn from #nymwars

A post over at Craig Thomler’s ego­vau has alerted me to the fact that Aus­tralian Pol­icy Online through their Inside Story site, now requires real names in order to com­ment. The pol­icy (placed at the end of each story) reads: We wel­come con­tri­bu­tions about the issues cov­ered in arti­cles in Inside Story. Well-​​​​argued and clearly […]

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Google not only does evil but proves its stupidity over Google+ names

Google not only does evil but proves its stupidity over Google+ names

While I cer­tainly empathise with Stil’s incan­des­cence over this, there’s a sim­ple set of assump­tions from a customer/​​user expe­ri­ence basis all the “Stil is an idiot” clown pack aren’t get­ting. It sim­ply doesn’t mat­ter whether he/​​you/​​I pay for a ser­vice or not, if it’s offered up out there in the wild on a basis that […]

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