{"id":1208,"date":"2008-12-07T07:17:50","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T12:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2008-12-07T07:17:50","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T12:17:50","slug":"the-eight-week-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/07\/the-eight-week-rule","title":{"rendered":"The Eight-Week Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really like The Age&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/blogcentral\/index.html\">Blog Central<\/a>. I wish more papers took on new media (The NYTimes is another shining example, of a good new media citizen, coming from the old media world). The Star Online tries with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.thestar.com.my\/\">the Citizen&#8217;s Blog<\/a>, which is crowd-sourced blog entries. The Age explores new boundaries, topics that may not make its way to print, but can definitely be OK for online dissemination. Plus you get comments. Crowd-sourcing blog posts, under the guise that you&#8217;ll get more readership (for the author) probably doesn&#8217;t make too much sense&#8230; everyone will jump on the idea of creating their own blog, and harnessing the many ad networks there are out there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s hit my RSS reader for today? <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.theage.com.au\/lifestyle\/allmenareliars\/archives\/2008\/12\/the_eightweek_r.html\">The eight-week rule<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.theage.com.au\/allmenareliars\/\">All men are liars<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8230;formalisation of a new dating regulation &#8211; the eight-week rule &#8211; a time period &#8220;at the commencement of a relationship, in which there is no obligation on behalf of either party to offer any form of commitment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On one hand, the eight-week rule offers (dare we say encourages) eight weeks of carefree fun, even when you know full well there is no future in the relationship. On the other hand, it forces you to lay your cards on the table after eight weeks, and discourages you from stringing the other person along or getting too comfortable with a person you&#8217;re not that interested in,&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read it. Laugh at it. Realise it will probably never make a print magazine\/paper, unless its the relationship column of some rag. But go on and read the comments. Some are downright witty. They make for excellent Sunday reading. And urban myth or not, this eight-week rule (or Sam&#8217;s three-week one) makes a lot of sense<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20The%20Eight-Week%20Rule&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F12%2F07%2Fthe-eight-week-rule&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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The Age explores new boundaries, topics that may not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20The%20Eight-Week%20Rule&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F12%2F07%2Fthe-eight-week-rule&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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