Emile Servan-Schreiber’s “gravatar” (i.e., face picture) now appears at the left of his comments and posts, here, on Midas Oracle. Good, my Lord.
Now he should enable this system on his little NewsFutures blog, where the current byline on posts (I’m sure) he penned is:
by newsfutures
Makes no sense at all to have anonymous postings on a blog that is aimed at legitimizing prediction markets in business circles. Anonymous texts have no weight on the Internet. People want to know who said what, and they want to be able to click on a link to check the post author’s background to see whether that guy/gal is legitimate.
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“No Author Biographies” = the #1 mistake —as seen by Jakob Nielsen (who needs no introduction to Mike Giberson
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(Same remark for the BetFair blog and the InTrade bulletin. As for the Inkling Markets blog, “adam” does not make the trick. Full name, please. And do capitalize the first letters, please.)
