http://www.anthonymcg.com/archives/2006/08/14/why-make-me-register/ Do you know Anto? Fri, 04 Nov 2011 23:05:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.anthonymcg.com/archives/2006/08/14/why-make-me-register/comment-page-1/#comment-5642 andcurve.weblog » Biometric Tue, 05 Sep 2006 18:53:02 +0000 http://www.anthonymcg.com/archives/2006/08/14/why-make-me-register/#comment-5642 [...] Check out my comment in reply to Anto’s story on registration in order to enter a site and view the content. Actually, I’m just going to put the comment here in it’s entirety, but remember to check out Anto’s site, I agree with him on this… [...] [...] Check out my comment in reply to Anto’s story on registration in order to enter a site and view the content. Actually, I’m just going to put the comment here in it’s entirety, but remember to check out Anto’s site, I agree with him on this… [...]

]]> http://www.anthonymcg.com/archives/2006/08/14/why-make-me-register/comment-page-1/#comment-5641 andcurve.weblog » Biometric Tue, 05 Sep 2006 18:34:53 +0000 http://www.anthonymcg.com/archives/2006/08/14/why-make-me-register/#comment-5641 [...] “There are 40 million or so Poles, so it is an issue that we have to look at.” Check out my comment in reply to Anto’s story on registration in order to enter a site and view the content. Actually, I’m just going to put the comment here in it’s entirety, but remember to check out Anto’s site, I agree with him on this… [...] [...] “There are 40 million or so Poles, so it is an issue that we have to look at.” Check out my comment in reply to Anto’s story on registration in order to enter a site and view the content. Actually, I’m just going to put the comment here in it’s entirety, but remember to check out Anto’s site, I agree with him on this… [...]

]]> http://www.anthonymcg.com/archives/2006/08/14/why-make-me-register/comment-page-1/#comment-5375 kevintel Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:18:57 +0000 http://www.anthonymcg.com/archives/2006/08/14/why-make-me-register/#comment-5375 The reason that Unison (the Independent Group online) has registration is that they're going to use the information as part of a study into why people will go to that much trouble to read incredibly badly written crap, even though it's hidden behind a tortuous sign-in and a website that hasn't evolved in 5 years.As it happens, it's a little known fact that the Irish Independent was actually set-up as a part of a similar experiment into how much people would pay to read inarticulate opinionated shite, but they never got around to shutting it down once they had all the information they were looking for, and since then it's kept going all by itself out of sheer bloody-mindedness. There was talk recently of having registration for the paper instead of paying for it to see if that would be a better deterent, or even setting fire to it before handing it over and then attacking the would-be reader.I signed up, but you'll quickly discover that stuff like RSS and editions and anything remotely interesting that you can do with the technology is... not there. Much like the notion of informative journalism, which isn't there either, and neither is punctuation. The sign-up, as I say, is a safety feature to discourage people. I actually don't know what they use the information for, I'm pretty sure your details go into a text file, probably in /tmp/. The reason that Unison (the Independent Group online) has registration is that they’re going to use the information as part of a study into why people will go to that much trouble to read incredibly badly written crap, even though it’s hidden behind a tortuous sign-in and a website that hasn’t evolved in 5 years.As it happens, it’s a little known fact that the Irish Independent was actually set-up as a part of a similar experiment into how much people would pay to read inarticulate opinionated shite, but they never got around to shutting it down once they had all the information they were looking for, and since then it’s kept going all by itself out of sheer bloody-mindedness. There was talk recently of having registration for the paper instead of paying for it to see if that would be a better deterent, or even setting fire to it before handing it over and then attacking the would-be reader.I signed up, but you’ll quickly discover that stuff like RSS and editions and anything remotely interesting that you can do with the technology is… not there. Much like the notion of informative journalism, which isn’t there either, and neither is punctuation. The sign-up, as I say, is a safety feature to discourage people. I actually don’t know what they use the information for, I’m pretty sure your details go into a text file, probably in /tmp/.

]]> http://www.anthonymcg.com/archives/2006/08/14/why-make-me-register/comment-page-1/#comment-5371 anthony Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:00:42 +0000 http://www.anthonymcg.com/archives/2006/08/14/why-make-me-register/#comment-5371 That site is dead handy Damien. Cheers. :) That site is dead handy Damien. Cheers.

]]> http://www.anthonymcg.com/archives/2006/08/14/why-make-me-register/comment-page-1/#comment-5370 Damien Mulley Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:59:04 +0000 http://www.anthonymcg.com/archives/2006/08/14/why-make-me-register/#comment-5370 BugMeNot.com BugMeNot.com

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