Various Link Exchanges

[dmaxwell]

You may add your links to the following link exchanges:

http://freepgs.com/ledbetter/wordpress/?page_id=69

http://freepgs.com/ledbetter/submitware/linkmachine/resources/exchange_links.html

http://fastlynx.zeeblo.com/

http://freepgs.com/ledbetter/wordpress/?page_id=166

http://googlereferral.com/dvdmxlle4.php

http://freepgs.com/ledbetter/wordpress/linkmachine/resources/resources.html

http://www.freepgs.com/ledbetter/classpro/newad.html

http://freepgs.com/ledbetter/cgi-bin/classifieds/classifieds.cgi

http://groups.msn.com/FuelSavers-Canwebeatthepriceofgas

http://freepgs.com/ledbetter/goods59.php

http://greenzap.mooo.com/networks/in.php?ID=4

http://freepgs.com/ledbetter/wordpress/othersites.php

http://freepgs.com/ledbetter/linkmachine/resources/exchange_links.html

http://www.monsterweblinks.com/index.php?ref=dubbs

http://www.fastlynx.zeeblo.com/smf/

http://www.classified.5gigs.com/linkman2/links.php

http://googlereferral.com/dvdmxlle4.php

http://freepgs.com/ledbetter/classpro/linkman2/links.php

[temi]

ummmm, interesting

[OldWelshGuy]

Read what is going on with Google at the moment and be VERY afraid of linking to off topic sites.

[dmaxwell]

I am not worried about censorship. I don't need tiny bits of money, etc. And Google links to every off-topic site and image imaginable. I'll just ignore all the double standards and off-the-cuff "rules."

Here's what I said on my gather.com blog ( http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976748666 ):

A few astute observers claim that since politicians cannot solve the big problems, they get their constituents and minions to cause trouble for "the little guys"so that it looks like government is getting something done. I would say that the same can be said about big-time Internet advertising publishers: They go after the small-time clickers, surfers, and bloggers who make less than minimum wage on the Net. They start "witch hunts" in order to deflect attention from the fact that they have a very hard time making the world obey whatever temporary rules they dream up during their unending quest to protect their multimillion (or multibillion) dollar profits. They call these phony mass actions of theirs "The Wisdom of Crowds."

But the wisdom of crowds does not exist.

There is no such thing as the Wisdom of Crowds (compare this to what pops up when you click on blogger.com's "What is the 'Flag'" button) -- people belong to groups and hang together as groups: age groups, political groups, national groups, Internet groups, (gangs, bullies, fools, and conspirators), to mention a few. Individuals are constantly influenced by their respective groups and the media produced by those groups and therefore do not make independent decisions. And when the data are suspect (as is often the case in field studies of society at large), statistics are fruitless.

Any election run on a technical platform rationalized as something called "The Wisdom of Crowds" will attract the public scorn of every newspaper in the world. In the United States, the American Civil Liberties Union (the ACLU) will likely assist in the prosecution of any organization that utilizes the so-called Wisdom of Crowds as the basis of government and democratic representation.

Yes, it seems that blogger.com's, blogspot.com's, opera.com's, and technorati.com's minions (a.k.a. editors) are made from identical pots of suspect stew. They have learned a means of deflecting attention away from their bosses' burgeoning advertising revenues: they get their hundreds of thousands of unpaid dupes to waste a lot of time and make a lot of noise.

You're supposed to cringe in fear and then write, blog, surf, and click for nothing or for less than minimum wage. That is how the Internet and the would-be Wisdom of Crowds are designed. The rich can't get you to work for free in their factories and suburban malls, but they can get quite a few loose-knit online bullies and tattletales to lead you by the nose here in cyberspace.

[OldWelshGuy]

Um DMAxwell, are you on something? ABSOLUTELY NONE of that made any sense with regard the replies to your post.

[temi]

Made no sense to me either

[dmaxwell]

The old welsh guy's first reply was too vague. The other replies are so short they are virtually useless.

The following quote is pretty straight forward:

I am not worried about censorship. I don't need tiny bits of money, etc. And Google links to every off-topic site and image imaginable. I'll just ignore all the double standards and off-the-cuff "rules."