Matthew Wayne Selznick

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!

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.