(Sorry for this shameless promotion, but some entrepreneurs in thriving-but-not-so-covered-by-journalists countries definitely deserve more publicity )

Steve, good taste in farce. I love when the woman in the filth informs her “king” that he can’t be king because… “we’re an autonomous collective”.

Thanks for the license! If you knew me better you would understand why I enjoy a little brain stretching on your site. Stage fright, I do not possess. In fact, the opposit is often true. Avocationally, I have a cover band (Blues and Rock-I play guitar, harmonica and do vocals), backpack and fly fish and still think that the skit “Constiutional Peasant” by Monte P. is of the best!

Good health to you and yours in the New Year.
Best,

SB

Thanks for noticing this post of mine

What I was writing concerned a moderating system ceteris paribus. You have tons of websites that run on user-input but that succeed in making it work.

Take Wikipedia, for instance. Most articles gain from users’ contributions. When too many people come into the game, they have this locking system.

For news websites, I think you’d need more social features to evaluate content. Highway( h.ua), a Ukrainian citJ websites, works this way and isn’t too bad. Food for thought at The Economist?

Best,

nicolas.

But now: You are hereby officially allowed, encouraged and entreated to produce comments that are patently silly from time to time.

After all, I can’t have my commenters getting stage fright. Gulp. Where would that lead?

I believe that the quality of your blog compels quality responses. Your posts are interesting and reveal the work of a person who is thinking and walks the walk in terms of research-the bonus is that the topics are evocative and poignant. In short, I have been challenged in fashioning my comments, hoping that they are parallel and of some value. So, without sounding like a suck-up, you present as a very well-read and interesting person and are an excellent writer. So, thanks for the challenge. I feel like my brain is once again getting some exercise.

Steve B.