Frankie Roberto wrote: > Incidentally, the news story mentions that Alex Wissner-Gross, who > calculated the figures, has set up the website > http://www.co2stats.com/ which is a *commercial* service that allows > you to pay to offset the carbon produced by your webservers, so call > me cynical, but he perhaps has a vested interest in talking up the > carbon costs of the web... Amongsts the 'benefits' of his service > (http://www.co2stats.com/benefits.php), he even lists 'increase the > time your visitors and customers spend on your website' (err, how does > that reduce carbon footprint) and 'get link traffic from other green > websites' (at best this is useless, at worst it's a link farm).
This is exactly what I thought when I read the article, it didn't actually have to mention his website but the minute I got to the inclusion of it I dismissed it as advertising. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
