Interesting Links for 30-04-2015

[andrewducker]

• A radical experiment with micropayments in journalism, 365 days later
  (tags: micropayments money journalism newspapers )
• Edinburgh Picture House Wetherspoons super pub plan approved
  (tags: pubs Edinburgh )
• A French Muslim girl was kicked out of class because her skirt was too long
  (tags: islam OhForFucksSake clothing women censorship )
• List of

Comments

[andrewducker]

I would _really_ like to see the micropayments approach in the first link take off. I don't mind paying small amounts for articles, but no single publication is going to publish everything I want, and I'm not subscribing to 30-odd different sites!

[alextfish]

Definitely. I've not paid for news for, mm, a decade or two if ever. But I'd pay a £30 annual subscription to get decent journalism from a good range of publications with different house biases and styles.

[cartesiandaemon]

Yeah, it sounds really good. I almost want to read a sceptical article just to be sure I'm not imagining it.

I was especially impressed with the "refund" idea -- that takes a lot of trust that people won't just always push it automatically. But if it works, it gets payment for not just journalism, but specifically interesting journalism.

[bart_calendar]

It really baffles me that the French politicians keep doing stuff like this and are able to say with a straight face that they are promoting secularism and not racism.

[andrewducker]

Yup.

I'm not even in favour of banning schoolkids from religious items - but stuff like this is just taking the piss.

[supergee]

Some people have just found new photographic evidence that Obama is a Muslim.

[alextfish]

Lego calls on kids to decide what "kronkiwongi" means and build one out of Lego.

[andrewducker]

That's fantastic!

[cartesiandaemon]

Secularism, YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG!

List of scandals with "-gate" suffix

[cartesiandaemon]

I love wikipedia lists. Although I wish there was a list of scandals with a funny -gate suffix :)

[simont]

I was quite amused by their comment on Plebgate, 'This "-gate" scandal is noteworthy for actually involving a gate.'

(However, I respectfully disagree with Wikipedia that it was known even secondarily as 'Gategate'.)

[cartesiandaemon]

This "-gate" scandal is noteworthy for actually involving a gate.'

LOL! I love those dry comments.

I respectfully disagree with Wikipedia that it was known even secondarily as 'Gategate'

I doubt that was widespread, but I'm sure people try to tag "gategate" on any crisis it could possibly be appropriate for...

[steepholm]

I definitely heard "Gategate" at least once, though no doubt it was waggishly meant.