h/t to Robert Scobble's Yammer
Alleluja - The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
(ACCC) is again investigating if contract conditions imposed by online
accommodation booking agencies are legal.
ACCC chairman Rod Sims
said recent changes to competition law may affect a stipulation
preventing local hotels and motels advertising a cheaper price on their
own websites, compared to those offered on sites operated by industry
giants such as Expedia and Booking.com."We're looking again at whether we've got the ability to force more change," Mr Sims said.
"We're looking at that extremely closely because we think there's a chance that the arrangements they're continuing to use might be illegal in further ways.
"So we're looking to see whether we can use the law to allow hotels and motels to put a different price on their own website."
Competition watchdog re-examines contracts tying motels to online booking sites
Trends in the diffusion of misinformation through social media
“I have a very special fondness for writing that is obscure, that does not quite succeed, because of the author’s intuitive restraint. All that I can say is that one must be as clear as one’s natural reticence allows one to be.”
Verbal Felicity is the Fruit of Ardor'
Here are Gay Talese's story boards, literally, written on shirt cardboard, for his Frank Sinatra has Caught a Cold article, generally proclaimed as the start of New Journalism:
Aphorisms: What Are They, Really? Life is hort Art is Long - Cold River Runs forever ...
"The … [Read more...]
In the aftermath of Sputnik three towering and best-selling works of fiction by dissident Russians — “Atlas Shrugged,” “Lolita” and “Doctor Zhivago” — were published in quick succession, crowded into an 11-month span, from October 1957 to September 1958. Today, all three still live on, each a universe in itself, read and discussed — and fought over — as if written not in prose but in hieroglyphics or code.
The best albums of the 1980s (was it really so bad?) courtesy of excellent Malchkeon
The most unwanted song, explanation here. I still like it more than most of what is on the radio. And it is certainly better than the most wanted song
Evan Osnos profile of Mark Zuckerberg (New Yorker).
Some observations on the economics of Cold River bookselling Why Failure is good for us
Men receive more tennis point penalties than do women, in three major categories
For
too long Americans have admired those who tough it out. We are brave enough to
call them what they are: suckers.