Google and Facebook Smackdown Imminent

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The Rules of Civility

I have two rules:

1) If someone irritates or annoys you and it persists, find some little but significant way to serve them.  Sooner or later they’ll be vulnerable in some way, when it comes take the high road and do the right thing, it’ll balance it out and they’ll feel in your debt, even slightly.  I swear, this works like a charm every time.

2)  Traffic is a good metaphor for life.  For instance, if I’m in a lane and someone really needs to get in, and they approach nicely, I’ll do it most times.  If someone approaches it with privilege and demands it, rot in the other lane, buddy.

Website Bans FFox Users, Lashes out at Mozilla Corp.

I won’t post the guys site, it’s nothing that I would be going to anyway, but you can read about it without viewing the site or driving this idiot’s hits up.  Besides, I can’t visit the site, I use Adblock and Firefox and refuse to load IE of any version for any reason.

The whole deal is that advertisers have GOT to understand that I and many others will refuse to visit sites with those damned pop-up ads that obscure part of the screen, or the ones that blink and move, or at the very WORST the ones that have music or sound in them.  Just the other day I hit a particular site with a non-Adblocked browser and some pop goop blasted out of my speakers (which had been turned up, my fault, for a fragfest on COD2) and scared the crap out of me and the poor dog, snoozing nearby.

You know, like the line from Field of Dreams “If you build it, they will come”, site owners need to understand that “If you build it crappily, with annoying ads that try to wring every bit of concentration out of your visitors, they’ll quickly find other sites to visit”.

Nuff said.

RossB

40 Coolest Free Apps

Over at Soepher.com there is a great list of 40 free apps, some of which you’ll have heard of, but there are some real gems in this list, check it out.