Well, imagine going to your fathers profile page and seeing a photo of him with shit on his dick. After YOU persuaded him that being on Facebook would be fun. Maybe not so funny after all...
Did you hear about Dutch insurance companies warning people not to post to Twitter and social networks that they are going on a vacation? Burglars are online too apparently... :-)
Lower on the drama? People get killed in that story, with the reporter present! I remember that story very well. Made an impression on me. more exciting than DNS flaws...
The original title is not "Don't take investment" but just "The Era of the Entrepreneur". What I tried to point out is that this era marks great opportunities for entrepreneurs but that bloggers and VCs make it seem as a terrible time. Hope that was clear...
About the Submit criticism: I also submit stories from other blogs and not every blog from TheNextWeb.org. Only stuff I think works for the Hacker News Community. But I will be more critical before I post links to our own blogs from now on.
I have always wondered if that would work for spam too. What if we would set-up a bunch of servers to follow all links (times 10) in all spam messages. Even better, make it a plug-in for Outlook & Mail. Then, if a spammer would send out 100.000 messages he would immediately receive 1 million hits. No problem if you are authentically sending a few emails but a huge problem if you are sending out millions of mails.
If would be an active spam fighting solution instead of all the 'turn the other cheek' solutions that are popular right now...
I prefer Illustrator for sketching because it is easier to drag certain elements straight to Photoshop once you are done. But I will give this a try anyway...
Or boost your own numbers to get more followers. More followers leads to more followers, which leads to anger, which leads to hate which leads to suffering...