One Peeeeved Python

[izmeina]

Izzie is finally going to get around to that Rodent Rant and had a whole bunch of tasty morsels of poisoned cheese in her arsenal. Or so she thought. A tasty juicy morsel one week is quite capable of slinking itself inside some stinking safe and cannot be rescued unless you REGISTER.
Just about any half decent rag in the land of Oz including The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age has now adopted this user friendly policy. Oh silly Iz. If we had any idea - it has now got to the stage where if you see something interesting online, you virtually have to cut and paste the damn thing to be sure of having access to it.
At the rate this trend is going, soon the only accessible online newspapers will be the likes of The National Enquirer, The Daily Prophet and The Quibbler.

Iz does not buy the argument that the material is copyright and therefore you should register. Of course they have spent time and money chasing stories or clicking and pasting but the adverts are supposed to pay all those expenses. And this business about offering "a better online experience" Bullshit. They just want to grab our precioussss data. If Izzie could even be bothered registering, she is hardly going to tell them the truth. I mean - we could always use the wonderful services from the folks in Bug-me-not but why bother?
Why don't these buggers go the whole way and take EVERY single paper off the news stands and make them ALL subscription only? Adverts and all.

Comments

[cat-irix.livejournal.com]

No problem ! As for me, I behave as a loyal citizen and register every time I come across a register-only site. Of course I reserve for myself the right to be creative with the registration data ;) Hopefully the SMH will draw useful statistics from having in its database a few users like an insanely rich 90-year-old clerical worker from the North Korea army, with a microsoft.com email addy.

Don't be lazy, spread the joy - spare a couple of minutes on each registration form, on every machine and every browser ! Be inventive ! The online newspapers need our imagination and creativity !

Those nosy newspapers

[izmeina.livejournal.com]

an insanely rich 90-year-old clerical worker from the North Korea army, with a microsoft.com email addy.

*recovers from Izzie fits of hysterical laughter*
Oh you truly are the Queen of Cats from Cyberian Hell. But Izzie has a question - how do you remember all those different usernames and passwords? Since the Iz is always using different computers - she would have to log in every single time. And this is one super lazy serpent we have got here.
*stands preening herself in front of the keyboard. sssss. "Wonder how 'Fatwa bin Jihada al Jazeira' looks? Or maybe 'Paris Hilton' suits Iz better?"*

Re: Those nosy newspapers

[cat-irix.livejournal.com]

Oh I don't need to remember them - they are stored in cookies and if I use another browser or computer, I just register with a different data - after all, the whole point is poisoning their database with junk, so the idea will ultimately turn out to be not worth the trouble. If you register each time you use a computer, it's ideal for this goal :) Although they might delete the users who are inactive for a long period, and also I understand that spending an extra time on filling the form is a bit of a hassle. Anyway, you can just write down all these names in one place - in a notebook or online, it's not like this information is sensitive and shouldn't fall into the wrong hands... Maybe Yahoo briefcase can be useful for a centralized file repository (btw are you familiar with yahoo bookmarks ? looks nice for somebody who has to jump from computer to computer)