Four for Friday, November 2
- Designing a “hotel for gays”
Axel Hotels has just opened its second location in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The company operates what it calls “hetero-friendly” (as opposed, I suppose, to “gay-friendly”) hotels that are carefully designed to appeal to the upscale gay market. - Cory Doctorow: Automated copyright scanning will never work
Boing Boing blogger Doctorow wrote a dead-on piece in the Guardian about why various companies’ efforts to develop automated “copyright sentries” are futile. - Stupid Apple predictions
There have been a lot of misinformed, ignorant and just downright pessimistic predictions about Apple. Here are some of the best. - Why your blog is going nowhere fast
A list of some of the best and most common-sensical reasons why new blogs tend to flounder and fail.
