It shouldn't come as a surprise that every X months there's a new teen thing. IIRC, FormSpring was one such thing that seems to have faded from the zeitgeist. Will be interesting to see which way SnapChat, Yo, etc. go.

I understand your sentiment, but I know weheartit has been around for a long time at this point (circa 2008). It always reminded me of a Pinterest alternative.

Weheartit is 8+ years old. They didn't build 30 million users in the last few months. New to you, doesn't mean new.

Everyone went to Ask.fm instead.

Every 9-12 months, a batch of trend setters go to college and a new thing is emerges in a group that loves new things.

Sure - thank-you for asking!

TW provides a stream of unfiltered content focused on the technology vertical, allowing for easy browsing and serendipitous discovery.

TW also automatically tags every story and surfaces "trending" tags to highlight the notable news buried in the stream.

So - the goal is to provide a degree of the "here's what you should know today" view, but still provide a fun to scan, unfiltered view of technology news.

Lots of action today - tags that bubbled up today (July 15, 2014) included...

Net Neutrality http://techwatching.com/tag/neutrality Yahoo! http://techwatching.com/tag/yahoo IBM http://techwatching.com/tag/ibm

...and a bunch of others.

Here's the same system doing an automotive vertical: http://wheelscore.com/

System is still under development - big thing outstanding is solving back-button behaviour on the infinite scroll.

I would really value folks feedback re: the "trending tags" and whether this is a valuable means of calling attention to notable news.

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They do. Property taxes.

Seeing as ISPs also receive money from the government and Netflix pays taxes, you could make the same pointless observation about Netflix and Verizon.

But you shouldn't. This discussion is about a direct company-to-company attempted shakedown, not inefficient procurement.

I'm not sure you mean to argue for a publicly funded Internet, but that's basically what this implies.

You've already got that as the government already pays subsidies. I'm all for basic infrastructure to be collectively owned; be it co-ops, collectives, not for profits or even the government (local, national etc). This is the way it is for roads, rubbish, sewerage, etc. If you want a premium / luxury service then feel free to pay extra. Contract out support, maintenance, sales for the infrastructure by all means, but the ownership should be a collective of the users.

Property taxes tied to the level of traffic destined for a particular commercial location? This is the first I've heard of something like this, can you tell me more?

Property taxes for a given location are determined by the size and nature of the business.

Property taxes are based on a poor approximation of what a property would be expected to sell for. The relationship between that and the size or nature of the business operating there is highly attenuated, and it's almost entirely decoupled from how much traffic a business generates on any particular road.

They don't pay taxes to toll road operators.

Nightmares and sleep paralysis! Wheee! Advil works better as a sleep aid for me.

Grapesoda, I don't want to hijack this thread, but I want to give you another bookmarking alternative. Take a look at my submissions!

Well, now I'm hungry.

Lets kill two birds with one stone and just land the ISS on the moon. ISS done. Moonbase done.