Should you work for free?

Jessica Hische has the answer.

Caturday in eternity

Dmitri Orlov's new essay proposes a nice idea how to deal with dead Web 2.0 users. Instead of winding them down via passwords kept in testaments etc. we should keep them alive! Prop them up using appropriate expert systems, keep them posting cat pictures and tweets. First of all, this stabilizes and enhances the value of the companies involved: more users - more value. And our Facebook accounts and tweets will keep a semblance of civilization going, whispering to each other, even when we are long gone.

Google+: Your weird name makes Google nervous

My name is Karl Möller, but the world only knows me as Sausageman

YuccaTreePost offers a short but timely look at Google's opaque and irritating policy concerning the naming of one's profile in Google+ and it's effect on professional bloggers and other people whose pseudonyms have become their trademarks on the net. Basically, you may expect to lose access to your complete Google profile if you use a pseudonym and some jackass decides to denounce you, even if this pseudonym is well known in the blogosphere.

I personally think that the case for allowing pseudonyms is very strong, and preventing people from using them would be a step in the wrong direction. Apart from that I am afraid the company is scaring away new users of Google+ at a very critical time with their wavering on the issue. A clear and comprehensible policy would be most welcome.

In other news: You can now mute single users without throwing them out of your circles. This is an extension I've been waiting for since the whole Google+ thing started...

Vaguely unsettling

....did she just vomit eyeballs?

via coilhouse

Boys will be boys

via who killed bambi?

Google+: one fucking day

One day. That's the time it took for the first advert to appear in my (comparably miniscule) stream, trying to sell some casual game. You know, not Farmville, but something similar. I am bound to spend lots of time with Google+ and I hope that it is going to be a big honking success (if only to wipe the floor with facebook), but this doesn't bode well.

Still a worthy endeavor