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Why I Sometimes Hate The Internet

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The Internet is pretty fun, but every now and then it gets me really irritated. Take today, for example.

Jason Michaels, one of my favorite CH contributors, had a great idea the other day. CH Intern, Owen, and I worked ovetime to get it illustrated and posted to the site in time for the overnight spot. It did well on the site, but failed to make the front page of Digg. Oh well, right?

But today I got an email from Jason letting me know someone had posted the images from the article on tinypic and the link to that was now on the front page of Digg, sending untold numbers of readers there.

Now, aside from it being extremely frustrating when your work is stolen and posted without credit, it’s doubly-bad for Jason, who would have made money on this post had the link to his gone to the front page of Digg (CH pays writers on a pageview scale). Digg won’t do anything about it, Tinypic most likely will ignore our request to re-direct the URL and Jason is left without credit for his idea and without any money for it either.

So thanks, Stephanie (aka qu6767) for stealing Jason Michaels’ money. Asshole.

UPDATE : Tinypic removed the image and Jason’s Digg link went to the front page.  JUSTICE HAS BEEN DONE!

I sometimes hate the internet, too. But part of what I hate about the internet are schemes like paying people based on the number of page views that their work generates.

Sources say Explorer went so far as to highlight the “Yes” button in the pop-up window in the hopes of baiting him into pressing it, and even emitted a sad little “beep” in a pathetic bid for attention.

Sources say Explorer went so far as to highlight the “Yes” button in the pop-up window in the hopes of baiting him into pressing it, and even emitted a sad little “beep” in a pathetic bid for attention.

—Internet Explorer makes desperate overture to become default browser

The top executives at AIG, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Lehman and Goldman Sachs pulled down more than $2 billion in pay over the past five years according to a new analysis by a professor at San Diego State University’s Charles W. Lamden School of Accountancy, Dr. David DeBoskey. Henry Paulson, who in his current role as Treasury Secretary is pushing for a bank bailout, accounts for $82 million of the total. That was his pay for three years (2003 to 2005) as CEO of Goldman Sachs. DeBoskey included the pay of 57 different individuals, pulling the data that companies report on their top 5 officials to the Securities & Exchange Commission, to get to the $2.1 billion total. Now-bankrupt Lehman Brothers, the smallest of the five companies, was tops in pay. It doled out $743 million in compensation for all its top officers from 2003 through 2007. Next was Goldman Sachs with $726.5 million, then AIG at $336 million, Fannie Mae at $207.2 million and Freddie Mac at $90 million.

The top executives at AIG, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Lehman and Goldman Sachs pulled down more than $2 billion in pay over the past five years according to a new analysis by a professor at San Diego State University’s Charles W. Lamden School of Accountancy, Dr. David DeBoskey.
Henry Paulson, who in his current role as Treasury Secretary is pushing for a bank bailout, accounts for $82 million of the total. That was his pay for three years (2003 to 2005) as CEO of Goldman Sachs. DeBoskey included the pay of 57 different individuals, pulling the data that companies report on their top 5 officials to the Securities & Exchange Commission, to get to the $2.1 billion total. Now-bankrupt Lehman Brothers, the smallest of the five companies, was tops in pay. It doled out $743 million in compensation for all its top officers from 2003 through 2007. Next was Goldman Sachs with $726.5 million, then AIG at $336 million, Fannie Mae at $207.2 million and Freddie Mac at $90 million.

—$2 billion pay day for failure - BusinessWeek [via tiffehr]