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The Sun Chronicle, a Massachusetts paper, will charge would-be commenters a nominal one-off fee of 99 cents. But it has to be paid by credit card, which means providing a real name and address.
And the name on the credit card will be the name that will appear on comments. So it’s goodbye to anonymity.
"US newspaper to charge website commenters (via nikf)
I’m thinking about doing this to some of the dogster/catster blogs. Well not charging, but requiring that people post a link to their pet’s page. Amazing how many people post anonymously when they have something mean to say not realizing their IP gives them away.
(via tedr)
I confess I haven’t yet thought it fully, but tentatively, I am in full support of this. If you can be tentatively in full support of something. Which is also how I feel about Tron Legacy.
(via rickwebb)
Who knew that Attleboro MA would suddenly be so forward thinking. Certainly not my grandma, who lives there and still doesn’t own a computer.
