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Rick Falvinge Launches News Bulletin Service

posted by CoolHand on Tuesday June 16 2015, @08:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the skull-and-crossbones dept.

Robotron writes:

Former Swedish Pirate Party leader and Internet activist Rick Falkvinge launched a new venture yesterday. Intended to rival established media, Falconwings provisions quality news bulletins that are easily shared via the project's automated image creation process. A total of 600 writers are being recruited, with the sole criteria being the ability to consistently author summaries of 450 characters, split into three principle sentences: Fact, Background and Satire.

Initial signs have been promising, with the various tweets from candidates exceeding expectations in terms of quality and audience.

Are there any budding Soylentils interested in giving this a try?

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by kaszz on Tuesday June 16 2015, @09:40PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday June 16 2015, @09:40PM (#197044) Journal

    Soylent doesn't have that. Must be a bad site. ;-)

    I propose we add 10 MByte javascript on every page that will load the new DRM flash based player that will emulate HTML5 interpretation such that every letter can be viewed in mute language accompanied by hard metal music, well lets just say audio. In addition everybody will be required to use the new open ID system that will require naked photos of every family member such that image recognition will work without interference from clothes. This login system will run on a Java platform from the big empire in Seattle and only require a 5 GB Java blob with a direct phone home to the department of arbitrary decisions running fortuitous OS v0.1. And of course a slight 1x1 image will be loaded from our 1000 sponsors for your own good.

    (some humor present....)

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by WizardFusion on Wednesday June 17 2015, @12:24PM

    by WizardFusion (498) on Wednesday June 17 2015, @12:24PM (#197222) Journal

    ...(some humor present....)

    Only on this site. For most other sites this is all true. Sad, but true.