27 March 2012 - The Mad Filkentist (original) (raw)

05:45 am - This week on FTL
Another Tuesday, another post.

An organization which I don't name almost lost its wiki due to having left its management in the hands of just one person. Did it save the wiki from a lonely cyberdeath? Did it have to reconstruct all its old information with chisels and toothpicks? Read on to find out.

11:14 am - Facebook-only comment pages
Quite a few websites, from USA Today to my local newspaper, are accepting comments only from Facebook users. I suppose they're doing this because it provides some control over comment spam, but it's very annoying to all the people who won't touch Facebook with a ten-foot pole. It also biases the pool of commenters, since people who care about their privacy or avoid sites run by big corporations tend to avoid Facebook. I wrote the the administrator address at nashuatelegraph.com making these points, and got a reply which was polite but amounted to "We don't give a damn what you think."

I'm surprised I haven't seen much noise about this issue. I guess in the Brave New World everyone is expected to get a Facebook account.