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Presidential Attire      No, no, this isn't a rant on what the President chose to wear today for his speech in Warren.  (His uniform of white shirt and solid tie, no jacket, always gives him his desired air of industrious elegance.)  No, my concern here was with the attire of many of those who were lucky enough to have tickets to attend.      I'm all for America looking like its casual self.  And with most of the guests having to arrive several hours before the President's arrival, it meant a long, very warm day without a single cloud to provide a moment's shade.  There are also security realities which, as any air traveler knows, can lead you to pare down your wardrobe to a detector-friendly minimum.  And yet… it is the President.

Hükümet aylar öncesinde erteleme seçeneği üzerinde çalışma yapıyordu, baskılarımız neticesinde bir alteratif olarak düşünülen bu seçeneği bile başaramadılar, binlerce anne baba ve evlada bu bayram müjdesini bile verebilecek kapasitelerinin olmadığı bir kez daha anlaşılır olmuştur.. Karşılıksız çek tutuklamalarının, ekonomi gidişat lafının arkasını sığınılarak, vatandaşlarını bankalara ve rant çevrelerine nasıl kurban edildiğini açıkca gördük, durumun buraya gelmesinde bizim suçumuz yokmu şüphesiz çok var, bir fax çekmek için arkadaşından 1 tl borç alan arkadaşlarımız olduğu gibi, önünde her türlü imkan varken kılını dahi kıpırdatmayan arkadaşlarımızıda gördük.

Alex Laburu raises a serious point about Stumbleupon; that perverse incentives are built in to the system by SU's business model, in which the company makes money, not from visits to blogs on their system, but by getting paid for "stumbles" - random visits to sponsor websites taking place through their system. Under such a model, Laburu argues, a well written blog costs the company money, because it is a blog visitors are less likely to leave soon via a stumble - and those following its links aren't stumbling. He raises a good point (among others), one that should lead SU users to view with concern the supposedly good feature that is the absence of advertising on our blogs on SU, because it provides SU admins with a short term incentive to side with those misusing the system at the expense of those using it constructively. Which does leave us with the question of how Diigo is making its money, does it? One might ask if many of the users bring this sort of thing upon themselves - listen in on the screaming when the very possibility of introducing advertising is raised, on some sites, as if the hosting service didn't need to make money. Perhaps when the subject arises here - Diigo is still in Beta as I write this - some of us might want to speak in support of that very sensible source of revenue for a company we'd like to evolve in a healthier direction than that being taken by some of its competition, at the moment.