Craig Newmark from craigslist brings up some good points about the soon-to-be-launched
Edgeio service in the comments section of
this post on BuzzMachine. It will be interesting to see how Edgeio deals with these issues.
Mr. Newmark’s comments:
“…I act as full time customer service rep, there’s a few of us, only a few, because with flagging, our community removes most questionable ads.
Using the tagging approach, how are bogus ads removed? Considering that spam blogs are already a huge problem, and how easy it’ll be to falsely tag viagra ads, the volume of bad ads will be tremendous.
That will also be true of blogs that do things like tagging photos that you’d prefer not to see, but they’d be in search results anyway. (You really don’t want to know.)
Also, how will ads be removed (by the poster) or expired?
When there’re other problems, like defamation, how are they handled?
I’m guessing that many customer service reps will be needed, good jobs, but then,
you risk being a “publisher” which means that you have to monitor ads.”
Today, near Sutro Baths / Cliff House.
Flickr user yorkie has started a new Flickr group called The Great Postcard Hunt. Go here to find a challenge postcard (currently the pool includes postcards from Sacramento and San Francisco). Find the postcard location, take a photo of the current location, merge it with the postcard image, and post it to the pool. Click here for the GPH blog.
Filed under: flickr, postcards
A couple of weeks ago at
Grand View Park (Golden Gate Heights neighborhood) looking towards Sutro Tower. More Hills of San Francisco
here.
Three-time Super Bowl MVP Joe Montana was one of just a few no-show’s at the Super Bowl MVP spotlight that was held before Super Bowl XL. According to
this report in the San Francisco Chronicle, Joe was holding out for $100K. Bad move Joe. You just lost well over $100K in future endorsements if this is true.
2/7/2005 Update:
Joe Montana maintains that he missed the MVP event due to family obligations. More here.
2/9/2005 Update:
This didn’t occur to me: Tim Kawakami at Bay Area Sports thinks Joe’s no-show has something to do with Joe’s long standing rivalry with Steve Young. This story seems to be picking up steam as the week goes on. More discussion about Joe over at SFist.
Filed under: Super Bowl XL, Super Bowl MVP, San Francisco 49ers, Joe Montana
Yes, this has been out for a while and yes, mash-up’s jumped the shark a while ago, but I’m still enjoying this this one.
