RSS
Tired Is Wired
from the so-many-emails dept
Paul Boutin's latest piece for Slate is an amusing story about a friend of his who registered the domain name Tired.com back when both were working at Wired (remember all that Wired/Tired hype?). Like so many people who ended up owning a website, he had no idea what to do with it and put up a simple message: "Are you tired? Tell us why" and linked to an email address. It turns out, people were tired, and they had no problem telling why. For the past seven years, the guy who runs the site has received over 32,000 emails, coming in at a fairly constant rate during all that time. The site isn't advertised or talked about much (until now, I guess), but tired people keep showing up and answering the question. Boutin posts a couple of examples, and then notes that no one tries to disguise their identity. He believes that they simply don't think about the consequences at all, and are just answering the question.
5 Comments | Leave a Comment..
- BBC Tracks Down And Confronts An Internet Troll
- More Details About Paramount's Offer To Law Schools To Teach Them About The Evils Of 'Content Theft'
- DailyDirt: Sneaky Little Spiders
- Can We Count The Ways In Which Lowe's 'License Agreement' For Linking To Its Site Is Insane?
- NBCUniversal Pirates NBCUniversal SNL Skit That NBCUniversal Refuses To Put Online
Reader Comments (rss)
(Flattened / Threaded)
bare web site
[ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]
32K
[ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]
Re: 32K
[ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]
Re: 32K
[ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]
00:42... That is the time to send
[ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]
Add Your Comment