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The Facebook Effect on the News

Around this time last year, I considered writing a story claiming that Facebook and Twitter were the new “homepages” for news on the Internet. It was going to be about how, if the Web had ripped out the article pages of newspapers and magazines and scattered them to the wind, Facebook and Twitter had pinched them from the air and stacked them in easy, vertical columns that were becoming our new first-look sources for the day’s events.

A year ago, social networks are the new homepage seemed like an (almost) original observation. Today, it’s just a boring fact.

In the last twelve months, traffic from home pages has dropped significantly across many websites while social media’s share of clicks has more than doubled, according to a 2013 review of the BuzzFeed Partner Network, a conglomeration of popular sites including BuzzFeed, the New York Times, and Thought Catalog.

Facebook, in particular, has opened the spigot, with its outbound links to publishers growing from 62 million to 161 million in 2013. Two years ago, Facebook and Google were equal powers in sending clicks to the BuzzFeed network’s sites. Today Facebook sends 3.5X more traffic.

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Source: The Atlantic

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God Bless the English sense of humor.

God Bless the Beatles

First playlist on Guvera, 23 songs, thinking of doing a top 40 like the old days but a lot of songs are missing and the years on the albums and tracks are not necessarily release years. Also, many songs are not from the original album but from remastered, re-released, and compilation albums.

You know what, this calls for a hunt for those NOW CD series.

If only there’s a way to look up those old Prambors or Rick Dee’s weekly top 40 charts online for every month of the decade. One chart for each month because weekly would be redundant. – View on Path.

Life is a pitch. It’s all about convincing people about your idea no matter what you do. Want people to buy you something? Need money? Want a pet? Have an ad concept? Wanna build a business? Want a girl or boyfriend? Wanna get married? Pitch.

Crowdfunding your life

So a few years ago I wondered if this idea would work: live entirely based on crowd funding, getting people (not employers) to pay you every month to do what you want to do. Sounds kinda crazy. Shopped the idea around to a handful of people and they all said I was crazy. Nobody would want to fund other people’s life that way.

Today I found out that in May 2013, a site that does exactly that was launched. It’s called Patreon. The aim is to bring the old patronage system back and give it a modern spin. Everything would be tracked and the site owners take 8% fee from each pledge; 3% credit card processing and 5% commission which they say goes to running and maintaining the site.

Patreon is dedicated to funding artists or creators, people who make things, basically, and it can be pretty much anything as long as it’s continuous. The patrons can stop funding any time.

I don’t know how popular it is and it’s only been up for less than a year, so its success has yet to be entirely determined. Will be keeping an eye on this.

Thought via Path

Why isn’t there an app to monitor your daily electricity usage which can be mapped to your calendar app and and provides you with fancy historical and projection charts so you can properly track your consumption and budget your usage more easily?

I mean these days new dwellings use prepaid electricity, so this sort of app would be something most people would find extremely useful.

The principle of this applies also to apps for prepaid voice and data subscriptions but currently apps for those only provide data consumption against allocated quota as opposed to showing actual daily data usage. with Deddy, Cak Uding, Evan, and Dolly Surya – Read on Path.

Indonesian minister for communications and informatics asked condescendingly on Twitter what people would do with fast internet connection.

This is the same government minister who linked immorality to natural disasters.
This is the same government minister who claimed to have blocked online porn in Indonesia.
This is the same government minister who said it wasn’t his choice to shake Michelle Obama’s hand on her visit to the country.
This is the same government minister who said it was a waste of money to fight AIDS.

And now he’s asking on Twitter why people want fast internet access as if it has no real benefit.