The Great Wall of China – and Elsewhere
January 24th, 2006 - 9:51 pm
We have here two seemingly unrelated stories. You probably have already read them, so I’ll give you just the headlines.
TimesSelect Draws About 156,000 Web-Only Subs in First 4 Months
What these two event have in common is, they’re both about building walls. China
I have removed Google Ads from my news site, and am suggesting that other Google Ad users do the same:
http://www.bloggernews.net/2006/01/blogger-news-network-discontinues.html
(*cough* linkwhore *cough*)
TO: Stephen Green
RE: That’ll Help
“Since the Times put the words of its eight Op-Ed columnists behind a paid wall last September, it has also decided that only TimesSelect subscribers should be allowed to e-mail Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, David Brooks, et al” — Stephen Green, citing Joe Strupp of Editor & Publisher
Good solid ‘sound-proofed’ Walls make for excellent echo chambers.
Nothing from the outside will distract those on the inside from their self-flatulation.
What comes out of there will only stink all the more. Something to do with a lack of adequate ventilation, I suppose.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
MoDo was going to Australia and while she was there she wanted to find a boy she had the hots for in her 20s.
She is really getting desparate.
Tim Blair reported that.
When Ford lays off 25,000 workers, the Left immediately jumps up and shrieks, “It’s management’s fault!” Their solution, it seems, is to demand cutbacks in executive pay and perks. The unions, the workers are considered pretty much innocent.
By that same standard, I have to wonder when members of the Left are going to jump up and down and complain about the management of the New York Times? Or is this a case where it’s actually all the consumer’s fault?
Instead of Google, I have been using Teoma (http://www.teoma.com/) for years. Google returns thousands more “hits”, but most of those are dupes or not related to what I am searching for. I only resort to Google when Teoma comes up empty.
I’m hoping that google, Cisco, etc have agreed to this in order to plant technically sophisticated spy software, written by the boy geniuses at NSA, within the Chinese internet.
Now, some of you may think that I just gave it away, but maybe I *actually* want the Chinese gov’t to spend time looking for the backdoor instead of chasing “anti-government hooligans”.
Or not.
Think “Princess Bride”.
Trackback tests
Testing trackbacks. I seem to be able to receive them, but not send. I’ve had problems for a while now and it’s driving me nuts. Disabled Spam karma, replaced all my WordPress files with new copies (except for my themes directory), and am n…
Of course the whole idea and power of the internet is ubiquitous communication. It would take a backward thinking communist mindset to screw that up…..