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Armchair activism: Counter propaganda against corporate media
You can help stop the propaganda machine. Make the media giants sit up and take notice by flooding their search pages with anti-war words.
Visit the WarTools page to flood media search pages with words they are ignoring. Search requests are logged and analyzed. This is valuable data for assessing public response and it definitely gets their attention. WarTools will search news and other sites for you so you can see what they are reporting, or not. It will also let you repeat a search request up to 100 times every minute. Just leave the window open <grin>.
This web page is ordinary HTML and JavaScript and will work on your own computer or any website. Download a copy of it (http://www.kbiz.ca/wartools/), unzip it, and click on index.htm to bring it up in your browser. No installation is required.
PLEASE, get your own copy. Sure, you can just use the page at the above address, but web sites can easily be hacked down so it's really better to get your own copy. Get it while it's still available. If you have your own website, consider posting a copy there.
The link again: http://www.kbiz.ca/wartools/
Also, check out the CNN Net-Strike page: http://nowar.julez-edward.be/
This web page is ordinary HTML and JavaScript and will work on your own computer or any website. Download a copy of it (http://www.kbiz.ca/wartools/), unzip it, and click on index.htm to bring it up in your browser. No installation is required.
PLEASE, get your own copy. Sure, you can just use the page at the above address, but web sites can easily be hacked down so it's really better to get your own copy. Get it while it's still available. If you have your own website, consider posting a copy there.
The link again: http://www.kbiz.ca/wartools/
Also, check out the CNN Net-Strike page: http://nowar.julez-edward.be/
For more information:
http://www.kbiz.ca/wartools/
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I like this idea. You're on to something. But in thinking about it it occurs to me that allowing the search bot to hit their server up to 100 times a minute is a serious mistake. Any server log analyst worth his or her salt will be able to tell it's a bot, not a human, and if they see many of them doing the same search term it will make them marginalize the weight of the data. Heck, they might even assume it's the CIA doing "open source" scanning -- heh heh.
If people have an open browser and the bot searches three times a minute, that's closer to human behavior -- but still detectable as a software bot.
I donno what's best. Just thought I'd toss out the consideration to think about.
If people have an open browser and the bot searches three times a minute, that's closer to human behavior -- but still detectable as a software bot.
I donno what's best. Just thought I'd toss out the consideration to think about.
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