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Re: Do you think JB will ever move....? |
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John A |
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Feb 24, 07 - 12:55 AM |
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climateaudit@gmail.com |
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Further comments by JB with my replies.
And while I am on the subject, here are some things I don’t like about blogs:
1. Most of the screen is taken up with things I do not wish to read. I might wish to follow the links at some stage, but at the moment I want to read the text.
The look of the blog is endlessly changeable to whatever you want it to look like and it can be changed at a moments notice without altering a single paragraph. They're called themes and there are hundreds of different ones.
The one on CA is a three column theme, but there are one, two and four column themes out there to choose from.
2. So everything is divided into three columns. Even when the two redundant outer ones have run out of material, the information is still relegated to a narrow centre (sometimes very narrow). All right for addicts of tabloid newspapers, but not for people who read real books. What is the point of a screen that is mostly white space?
See above. That's the theme for CA but there are many that are different: Warwick Hughes uses the same software but his theme is totally different. Dan Hughes is different again. My blog ( http://things.auditblogs.com ) looks different again.
3. I object to the adverts being there, but sometimes they are destructively intrusive. I recently had to abandon one piece because the large flashing bright green square (telling me I had won a genuine lottery that I had not entered) was giving me a migraine.
Adverts are not compulsory. You don't have to have them at all.
4. On sceptical sites the adverts often subvert the material. For example, on Climate Audit, the revelation of fraudulent manipulation of data was accompanied by – Climate change is a reality today, see what you can do to help: A mobile to set off your carbon footprint: a new MSc in Climate Change. I actually believe in the power of advertising, which is why I don’t have any.
I think its entertaining because every time a read clicks on of those adverts, Steve McIntyre gets a small fee from the advertiser. Ironically, those advertisers are funding Steve McIntyre.
5. They are all made out of ticky-tacky and the all look just the same.
JB - They palpably don't. I could show you plenty of places where the same software looks completely different, and most people don't even realise its Wordpress. |
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