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Short Term, Long Term

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Here’s a quick idea for a website.

Focused on the interpretation of current events the editorial style is one that discusses the short term and long term effects of news.

With a tentative name of ShortTermLongTerm.com the site would make digesting and reacting to current events easy.

The easiest example right now is with the looming SOPA vote:

Short term effects:

  • Mostly none. Sites will continue to operate without any immediate interruption.

Long term effects:

  • Your favorite websites might experience occasional and sporadic spouts of downtime, going dark and unreachable as IP infringement inquiries mount.
  • New novel companies are limited in their creative scope for fear of attack through the SOPA act. If Facebook were to have been created post-SOPA they could face early attack and downtime due to complaints.
  • Future laws piggy-backing off SOPA arise and are based leading to tighter control over the Internet by the Government. Big brother becomes real and a threat to daily internet use.

I’d love to create this site however I’m not sure on what’s the best approach: maintained by editors or a community.

What are your thoughts?

The Best and The Worst Project

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A little while ago I wrote a post that had an idea for a list of ‘best things’ and ‘worst things’. It was a quirky idea based off then-recent observations of my over-use of the phrases ‘the best!’ and ‘the worst!’.

What’s interesting to me is the fact that those phrases haven’t gone away. Although the frequency in which they’re said has decreased, they seem to have crept into my daily way of talking – and I’m not alone. I see and hear other people using those phrases – ‘the best’ and ‘the worst’ – all the time now, leading me to believe that I’m not unique in their use and far from being their creator.

For those who know me I am a computer enthusiast and programmer. I have recently decided it was time for me to learn a new programming language, namely Python. I’ve been reading a lot of theoretical books on how to program Python, however there is something that can’t be taught without actually programming.
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