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2009 website stats
I’d like to thank the 115,962 people who visited this site in 2009. According to Microsoft adCentre Labs, 63 percent of you were male. Nearly 86 percent of you came from Australia, and according to Alexa, this is the 4272nd most popular website in Australia. The article viewed the most times (11,364 times) was my [...]
Tear down the great firewall
I’m supporting the online campaign to “Tear down the great firewall“. I oppose Australian Government plans to compulsorily filter the web. GetUp! has gathered more than 120,000 petition signatures so far in opposition to mandatory internet censorship. There are plenty of alternatives, like distributing software to parents to use at home, or making the filter [...]
Gifted Web Writers
I was invited earlier this month to join the Gifted Web Writers program. An unsolicited email on November 13 said my site had been discovered during a search “for high quality blogs and gifted web writers”. The writer referred to a specific post. “Michael, you definitely have a unique and interesting writing style and an [...]
Regulate Facebook and ban hate sites
A cadet reporter came across a new Facebook group this week that was dedicated to denigrating a local teenager, let’s call him Joe. Categorised under “Organizations – clubs and societies”, the group was called “People who think Joe is annoying”. There was a photo of Joe wearing his cricket club cap, with a red line [...]
