I figured out a way to deal with trolls. You know banning accounts and IP addresses only you gets you so far. It’s easy to create new ones or spoof addresses. There hasn’t been a successful way of preventing them from returning from the pit, except “don’t feed them”. Until now. How do you do it? Simple. To register a new profile, you have to fill out a new required field: Mom’s phone number. And it must be confirmed for the registration to go through (so you can’t give it to your friend). No need for banning, no need for strikes or filters. Anyone caught trolling gets a text to…
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The Power of the 1%
It’s not a big argument, but one of the criticisms of the #Occupy movement is that it’s ridiculous to assume that 1% of anything could have so much power. Well, let me demonstrate what 1% of something can do. Three months ago, PostSecret released an $1.99 iStore App where users could post pictures + messages of their secrets. All anonymous. Searchable by location. Secrets could be favorited and hearted. But it acted as essentially a large bulletin board for humanity. Shortly before the end of the year, it shut down. Anyone who bought that app (especially in its last month of lifespan) found that they had wasted their two dollars.…
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Things I Like: Hannah Hart & My Drunk Kitchen
YouTube is overloaded with TV shows, webcam series, and just about everything. I can’t remember where I heard of it, but one of my favorites, even though it doesn’t update very often, is My Drunk Kitchen hosted by Hannah Hart. What is My Drunk Kitchen? Pretty much what you think it is. A cooking show with copious amounts of alcohols, usually wine or mimosas. What makes it fun is the host, whose patience for baking extends slightly longer than a mosquito’s nose. She makes grilled cheese but forgets the cheese, puts cookies in a muffin pan, and calls tacos “a most versatile fruit”. Besides Hart’s fairy-like charm as she flits…
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Good Writers Don’t Use the Internet
I would apologize for not writing much on the blog lately, but I don’t want to be one of those bloggers who acts as if they care, as if they have a large audience hanging on their every word, who goes on an extended absence, says they’re sorry, and then continue their extended absence. There are plenty of more interesting sites out there, and you should be using an RSS aggregator, like Google Reader, to tell when there’s an update anyway. It’s better than visiting it once a day, then being disappointed that you see the same post you saw the day before, and the day before, and the day…
