For my Project 52 post, I thought I’d write about a much-commented and dug story on Ars Technica makes the case that Ad Blockers are “devastating” professional websites.
My argument is simple: blocking ads can be devastating to the sites you love. I am not making an argument that blocking ads is a form of [...]
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Tea Party warning
For my Project 52 post this week, I thought I’d quickly comment on Karl Rove’s recent article in the Wall Street Journal.
Karl Rove writes that the conservative, anti-Obama Tea Party movement needs to avoid being co-opted by the Republicans. They strength, he writes, is their decentralisation and their ability to “hold the feet of politicians [...]
Why I’m not blacking out on Australia Day
The legion of No Clean Feed activists have developed several campaign sites, one of which is The Great Australian Internet Blackout. Their call to action (in addition to writing to the Government and adding a twibbon to your Twitter profile picture) is to blackout (darken) your website on Australia Day.
Their reasons for doing this are:
The [...]
The Democrats will be victims to incumbency
There’s been some discussion about whether the Democrats will be victim to the over-cooked expectations of Obama supporters and energised conservative Republicans:
First, the background: the party of the president in office essentially always loses seats in the mid-term elections (2002 was a post-9/11 one-off), a tendency likely to be reinforced in 2010 by the fact [...]
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