Comments on: Wifi saga aftermath http://tonx.org/archives/47 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:52:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Mark http://tonx.org/archives/47#comment-1085 Mark Fri, 17 Jun 2005 07:02:50 +0000 http://tonx.org/archives/47#comment-1085 So... like. Tony. When are you gonna get back to talking about coffee ;) A fan of the coffee talk ;) So… like. Tony. When are you gonna get back to talking about coffee ;)

A fan of the coffee talk ;)

]]> By: Glenn Fleishman http://tonx.org/archives/47#comment-1081 Glenn Fleishman Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:56:41 +0000 http://tonx.org/archives/47#comment-1081 Your long nightmare of misattention is over! And thanks for being the subject (victim)? It's always interesting when you step into the Zeitgeist, and quite hard to scrape it off. Remember warchalking? The NY Times has its own style guide, and Internet is a proper name because it's always been defined that way. (It did stand for "inter networks" at one point. And it's one of many internets, apparently, according to a world leader.) At one point, email was spelled E-mail in the NY Times. The business angle was emphasized in the caption, but I think you may be underrating that part of things. The weekends are clearly busier based on your all descriptions, and I'd be curious if receipts don't reflect that more. The other cafes I spoke to were primarily interested in the culture issue, but finances always ran beneath it: it was hard to have the culture of REGULARS kept happy with too many laptop users during key social times. But we'll see. In a few months, if receipts are up 1 percent or down 1 percent on weekends compared to similar weekends with Wi-Fi, then it's all about culture, innit? Your long nightmare of misattention is over! And thanks for being the subject (victim)? It’s always interesting when you step into the Zeitgeist, and quite hard to scrape it off. Remember warchalking?

The NY Times has its own style guide, and Internet is a proper name because it’s always been defined that way. (It did stand for “inter networks” at one point. And it’s one of many internets, apparently, according to a world leader.)

At one point, email was spelled E-mail in the NY Times.

The business angle was emphasized in the caption, but I think you may be underrating that part of things. The weekends are clearly busier based on your all descriptions, and I’d be curious if receipts don’t reflect that more. The other cafes I spoke to were primarily interested in the culture issue, but finances always ran beneath it: it was hard to have the culture of REGULARS kept happy with too many laptop users during key social times.

But we’ll see. In a few months, if receipts are up 1 percent or down 1 percent on weekends compared to similar weekends with Wi-Fi, then it’s all about culture, innit?

]]> By: Mason http://tonx.org/archives/47#comment-1076 Mason Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:38:44 +0000 http://tonx.org/archives/47#comment-1076 Regarding why the NY Times capitalizes "Internet": It's the AP Style. I'm sure they have their own take on the style guide, but the Holy Bible of journalism says "Internet" needs caps. Also, "In later references, "the Net" is acceptable." The same goes for "the Web." I dunno. Maybe they just think it's that important. And with that I step off my gramatical high horse. Regarding why the NY Times capitalizes “Internet”: It’s the AP Style. I’m sure they have their own take on the style guide, but the Holy Bible of journalism says “Internet” needs caps. Also, “In later references, “the Net” is acceptable.” The same goes for “the Web.” I dunno. Maybe they just think it’s that important. And with that I step off my gramatical high horse.

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