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You, the Midas Oracle readers, are a bunch of lazy bastards…!!!… — Take that, loafers…!!!…

The provocative title of this post ( ) refers to the fact that Internet citizens don’t read on the Web. They scan. – - I’ve just read a Slate article that recaps Jakob Nielsen’s teachings —I highly recommend it to … Continue reading

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Please, make WordPress a bit like Wikipedia.

Folks, here is my proposal to the WordPress developers: Assign a great number of editors to some specific pages Right now, if you are an editor in WordPress, you can edit any posts and pages. Hence, the administrator of a … Continue reading

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Publicizing your blog is easier than marketing your book.

Eliezer Yudkowsky: [...] A blook is a collection of blog posts that have been edited into a book. Logically, then, publishing a book as a series of blog posts ought to be known as “blooking”. [...] #1. Sounds great. #2. … Continue reading

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THE WISDOM OF CROWDS: Internet citizens create original ads for firms.

Blog Bang (in French) is an offspring of Paris-based advertising firm Publicis: Blogbang est une plate-forme publicitaire 2.0 Les marques y déposent des briefs, les internautes créent des pubs et les bloggeurs diffusent celles de leur choix contre rémunération. [TRANSLATION: … Continue reading

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REALITY MARKETS MORE POPULAR THAN INKLING MARKETS

The claim is made by the official Reality Markets blog, with the caveat that Alexa numbers can’t really be trusted. I’d keep in mind that Reality Markets is a managed play-money prediction exchange while Inkling Markets is an unmanaged play-money … Continue reading

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The McLaughlin Group slams Time magazine for its choice for Person of the Year 2006.

Moderator John McLaughlin, Democratic-leaning Eleanor Clift and paleo-conservative Pat Buchanan condemned Time magazine editors for picking the Internet citizens as “Person of the Year 2006″ – (Streaming Video – Video MP4 file – Audio MP3 file): MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Okay, here … Continue reading

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TIME MAGAZINE – PERSON OF THE YEAR: THE MIDAS ORACLE BLOG AUTHORS…

… and, generally, all of the Internet citizens contributing to the Web content. TIME is right on target, but their thematic articles are banal and not engaging. Complete crap. Addendum (December 17): And I agree 100% with Mike Linksvayer’s conclusion.

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