Or sell every photo. Keep all the money. I don't care. I like IG because it's fun and low-hassle, not because I think I'm Yousuf Karsh.

I would, in fact, *prefer* that Instagram monetized by selling, say, a top-0.1% tier of photos, instead of advertising in the stream.

@WaxEBuildup A horrifying vision.

@dtopping Very low, though I feel a sense of serene resignation about Instagram, not outrage. Monetizers gonna monetize.

@nowtoronto Clicked through a mobile-version link someone shared; assume a stray cookie is the culprit or something.

Turned out to be a Chrome browser thing. Carry on.

@nowtoronto Yep, Chrome. (v. 23.0.1271.101) Hitting "Main Site" fixed it.

I mean, points for a bold design choice? But I'm assuming this is a stopgap measure for some other purpose.

Has @nowtoronto switched to a mobile-only website? Because this is what I see:

Are you an early-career journalist? Do you like writing about—and making!—money? Look at the CB internship: canadianbusiness.com/business-strat…

@richardwarnica "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a writer in possession of a well-trod cliché must be in want of a stern editor"

@christindal It's one of those "jobs of the future" we hear about from time to time. "Chris Tindal, Dog-Monetizer."

(I believe in "creator's rights," of course. I'm just a creator who doesn't care about my creations in this beyond-ephemeral medium.)

If they think they can monetize my crappy, lo-res photos of cute graffiti, through advertising or stock photo sales or whatever, go ahead.

I'm not trying to be pointlessly contrarian, but I haven't been able to muster any anger about the new Instagram TOS.

Returning to work after a week off: come at me, email inbox.

@typeter "Corpse-wranglers"?

@typeter Touché. Undertaker? What's the least euphemistic title?

Journos! "Died" is a perfectly good, factual word. Leave "passed away" to the funeral directors.

If I'd dropped a million on an Aura condo, I wouldn't be thrilled to move in above this hot mess. instagr.am/p/S1TYYCKF1d/

All of Star Trek: The Next Generation was just added to Netflix Canada: movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Star_T…

@WaxEBuildup @Bouts @ACCheng @nerdygirly @amandabeetee @MissStaceyMay I'm eavesdropping. Mind if I crash this one too?

@kattancock Yes! I didn't know this mixer was happening before. Now, through the magic of social media, I do. The system works.

That's from this piece by @hhavrilesky: vulture.com/2012/11/walkin…

Current TV apocalypses "feel like a child's clumsily drawn daydream...halfway between Dungeons and Dragons and Real Simple magazine."

@kelkord I have, but I don't have a copy I can whip out and photograph anymore. You win this round, Korducki!

@NPsteve @MissStaceyMay @kelkord "A kitchen pimp fears nothing." Anthony Bourdain WISHES he'd said that.

@MissStaceyMay @balkissoon But which two? This could complete the trilogy for you in a whole new way.

@kelkord Cookin' with Coolio is *not* a novelty cookbook. "A set of sharp-ass knives" is only a smidge different from what Julia says.

@balkissoon Could be a point of pride, too: You're immune to junk culture of the present, so your brain defaults to namecheck highbrow lit.

"Fifty Shades of Chicken," a parody e-cookbook by "F.L. Fowler." Stop. Just...stop: play.google.com/store/books/de…

A photoset of insane postmodern sandcastles: flickr.com/photos/4564853…

The @newinquiry's upside-down-and-backwards punctuation around their blockquotes is *killing* me:

@AndrwLvngstn Thanks! Now I've got to, you know, finish all the course material (!)

Toronto magazine people! In 2013 I'm teaching a fun new Ryerson course on digital publishing. Dig it: cdjn.ca/207/

@pocket Any possibility of adding the ability to save text from PDF, ePub, etc? Would be super useful to have everything in one place.

@Robsonian I think I sold mine at a garage sale in a fit of teenage idiocy.

@briandstdenis Done!

I feel like it's quite rare to see the word "classy" employed non-ironically anymore: awurl.com/1YqpxJLfv

@emmamwoolley Note that I gave you zero credit for that. Note it.

@emmamwoolley I too appreciate the gifs and Hannah on their own terms.

@emmamwoolley Not a shot at you! I just found the stridency of the viewpoint to be, like, notable or whatever.

The view of cultural production/appropriation on this MyDrunkGifs Tumblr is both crazy-interesting and crazy-crazy: mydrunkgifs.tumblr.com/tagged/The-Gre…

Whatever publishing's future is, it's surely *not* 68-second, unskippable pre-roll video ads for Bangalore construction companies.

The everyday Kafkaesque: "Unsubscribe from Luminato's email list here" — but nothing in the sentence is clickable.

@anne_theriault I'm so there.

@funnyonceaday Fair! That is an excellent comic.

@emmamwoolley @briandstdenis That sounds dangerously close to being authentic, and as you know, I'm against that.

@kattancock Indeed. It wasn't ringing, though—it was this bright light he just pulled out and fiddled with, in the third row. Distraction!

@emmamwoolley @kelkord Let me forever declare myself on Team Irony.

@ivortossell @kelkord For everyone.

@briandstdenis @emmamwoolley The movie was Skyfall. Which I mostly liked. But not as much as I like JUSTICE

@kattancock Still, I worry about being the guy writing letters to the editor about the misuse of "whom" and how headlights are too bright.

@kattancock They make an announcement before the movie starts! I don't think it makes me a priss to ask a smidge of social literacy.

@kelkord I'm something, all right.

@emmamwoolley @briandstdenis It's how I imagine Batman must feel all the time.

@briandstdenis Yes! It was exhilarating. Cranky 4 eva.

@kelkord Ugh, definitely not. I have zero time for other people's lectures on authenticity. But being quiet? I'm on board!

Also, on Sunday I shouted at a guy during a movie, five rows ahead, to turn his iPhone off. Get off my lawn etc.

One of those essays I kind of agree with even though it is irredeemably pompous and insufferable: nytimes.com/2012/11/18/opi…

"Seven glamorous cities (or, okay — six and Toronto)" Ouch, Gawker: gawker.com/5961959/rihann…

An adorably macabre little video about train safety: youtu.be/IJNR2EpS0jw

New Yorker riffs on greatest headline of all time: newyorker.com/online/blogs/c… / nypost.com/rw/nypost/2010…

Ms. Croft would do well to exercise more cultural sensitivity and not refer to her archeological exploits as "raiding tombs" #globeeditorial

RT @nicomuhly: You know when I say that Italian opera is str8 people drama 2 the max? That is what this Petræus experience is. Who Can ...

Truth. "Getting annoyed is one way to deal with other people’s fun."— @alexmolotkow weekendatbernietaupins.wordpress.com/2012/11/09/the…

An au-courant redesign for Chatelaine.com today. Wordpress! Responsive! Webfonts! (More Rogers titles TK, too)

(I'm imagining the lefty infighting that must have taken place behind the scenes about a market-driven approach to debt forgiveness.)

This "People's Bailout" concept is a winner: tangible, easy to explain, easy to do, feel-good. howtosharpenpencils.tumblr.com/post/352853381…

Reminds me of Philip Pullman, who talked about the "fundamental particles of narrative": barnesandnoble.com/bn-review/inte…

I like the Nate-Silverish scientific approach to storytelling described in that post. Narrative quants.

The (sorely needed) Pixar-ification of Lucasfilm is proceeding swiftly, looks like: vulture.com/2012/11/star-w…

Apropos of nothing, I am a big fan of lightweight Mac word processor Bean—far better than bloated MSWord: bean-osx.com/Bean.html

David Simon on demography: "Make no mistake: Change is a motherfucker when you run from it." davidsimon.com/inevitabilitie…

A little more detail about the (dire) extent of the problems at OpenFile: j-source.ca/article/openfi…

The demographic destiny of the United States in two tweets, part 2 instagr.am/p/RtpBRzKFzc/

The demographic destiny of the United States in two tweets, part 1. instagr.am/p/RtosHMqFzE/

RT @se: The perfect cover. “Awesome use of typography in a book cover. Designed by Ayako Akazawa.” pic.twitter.com/zVRPNBut @ElArteDePerder

@kattancock Guess so. Though it seems like the content/audience isn't that different on Tumblr. Whole thing has been interesting to watch...

@kattancock This AdAge story says existing advertisers didn't want to run their campaigns on the backup. Odd?: adage.com/article/digita…

@kattancock No doubt on that point. A tweet made in half-and-half admiration/consternation.

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@thismason True. Does it have an embed function (yet)?

@thismason I signed up right quick, but so far haven't actually used it for anything. Few of my thoughts warrant more than 140 chars...

@christindal Snowclone is the new cliché.

All this "It's the _____, stupid" hoopla today led me to the delightful term "snowclone": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone

@christindal @kattancock Make it happen — I'll let you know where to send the royalty cheques.

@christindal It wasn't—UNTIL NOW. I include myself among the bloviators, for what it's worth. It's an industry epidemic, really.

If we could somehow monetize bloviating about paywall economics we'd be set through 2056.

@jamescowan But that was the comic, not the legendary live-action film craptacular!

Let's not forget the most important part, which is that Disney now owns Howard the Duck: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucasfilm…

@ethicsblogger No doubt this is true. Yet again I'm behind the times!

If that isn't a lifestyle-parenting-trend piece waiting to be written, I don't know what is.

Email from new parents: "we won’t be sharing photos on Facebook etc. as we’re being careful about our daughter’s online footprint..."

That change will produce some winners, too—already has. I happen to believe we'll find a pay equilibrium at some point.

That's neither the end of the world, nor a personal condemnation of many hardworking reporters. But it's going to hurt all the same.

The heartbreak for the media is that we're finding out what people truly value, and it's turning out to be less than we'd imagined.

@balkissoon Yeah, it's not like we're being driven out of this paid-news Eden; free and paid have always lived side-by-side.

@balkissoon TV and text-based news are different, but the internet is more like TV than a print newspaper. (Which, *shudder*, kinda)

@balkissoon Of that, I have no idea. Remember, however, broadcast TV news has been around—for free—for decades.