Written on April 30th, 2006. Filed under
Scribtotum. Tagged with
activism,
firefox,
From The Web,
The Right Thing.
I just added a script to this site that might piss a few of you off — if you use Internet Explorer, you’ll see a page asking you to switch to Firefox.
You can still view this site with IE — I would never block access to this site based on your browser choice. But when you use IE, you’re not seeing the site the way it’s supposed to be seen, and you’re vulnerable to pop-ups, spyware, and so on.
And yes, for every IE user who switches to Firefox, I’ll earn a dollar from Google. So everybody wins — I love Firefox, I get to support an Open Source initiative I believe in, you get a better browsing experience, and I get a buck.
Those of you who don’t use IE — you won’t see anything different!
Update: I’ve changed the anti-IE script from a full-page blast to a banner at the top of the page. Reason? Darn thing pops up on every page, not just the home page. That’s too much.
You should still ditch IE!
Written on April 28th, 2006. Filed under
Scribtotum. Tagged with
Brave Men Run,
mws,
mwsmedia,
Personal,
sovereign era.
I got a nice surprise today. For the first time in my history as an Amazon Associate (and I’ve been one since they first offered the program back in the days of Web 0.2), I’ve finally received something back from them.
I got a gift certificate for $11.32 for sales made in the first quarter of 2006. It seems people are actually using my affiliate links to buy stuff from Amazon, including, naturally, copies of “Brave Men Run – A Novel of the Sovereign Era.”
I promptly turned around and spent it on the Go-Betweens’ latest, “That Striped Sunlight Sound.” Live CD, live DVD, and acoustic set with Grant and Robert! Woo hoo! Can’t wait.
So, thanks, everyone, for getting your Amazon stuff through me! Keep doing it! Yay!
The largest telecommunications companies in the United States are lobbying Congress to eliminate the concept of “Network Neutrality,” sometimes known as the First Amendment of the Internet.
Network Neutrality is what makes access to the smallest vanity web site from your Uncle Tony as easy to access as the biggest corporate site. It means that no one site has a bigger “voice” than any other.
Network Neutrality is one of the defining features of the Internets existence and its success as a democratizing force for creativity and innovation. If we lose this, we lose the freedom and ease of access that allows the internet to bring people, nations, and ideas together in a smaller, less divisive world.
Who benefits? AT&T, Time Warner, Verizon, Comcast… the big cable and telecom companies who would love to have a say over what you can access when you log on.
There’s more information here, including a simple way you can contact your representative to oppose this action. Please don’t delay to make your voice heard… or your online voice might just lose some of its volume forever.
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