Hi, David. Sorry to hear about all those SANFUs. Nevertheless, I think there should be some methodology or "code of conduct" for anyone requesting others to put a banner: A banner should never lead to an irrelevant page (at least if nothing major goes wrong).
In most cases, a single large link (e.g. to the campaign's blog) can solve this, but "eternal relevance" is a prerequisite that should be dealt with even before you offer the banner to webmasters. Otherwise, it's quite a lot of work to "weed out" banners from many sites the day the page they lead to stops being relevant. For example - yesterday I've discovered yet-another ball-and-chain banner on a blog I forgot about (hopefully, it's the last one). This is what triggered my rant :) All the best, The Dod On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:18 AM, David Moon <[email protected]> wrote: > > RE: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Uncle Zzzen <[email protected]>wrote: > >> If you sometimes put demandprogress banners on your sites, I think you >> should be concerned about this: >> https://dubiousdod.org/blog/i-feel-used.html > > > > Ah yes, belated apologies for our delay in updating folks on the Kirstaeng > v. Wiley situation. I just emailed the blogger in question. We've been > digging out from work after the election (and of course Hurricane pause - > where I was stranded out of the country - oy!). > > In any case, over 2,000 sites participated in the day of action, and we're > noticing a shift in the dialogue (see eg: google news search on "Kirstaeng > v. Wiley"). Here's an early article: > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/29/kirtsaeng-v-john-wiley-and-sons_n_2039997.html?utm_hp_ref=technology&ir=Technology > > We're optimistic we may win in court (decision around June), but either > way this will likely end up as an issue in Congress. We're already hearing > murmurs that industry lobbyists are setting up meetings on the Hill to > pitch their case to restrict consumers from being able to re-sell their > goods. Over the coming weeks and months, we'll be building out activities > to try and counter this effort and build awareness among ordinary Internet > users and members of Congress about the erosion of "First Sale." > > Stay tuned & thanks again (sorry for the delay)! Lots more info at: > http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/kirtsaeng-v-john-wiley-sons-inc/ > > -David @ Demand Progress > > -- > David Moon, Program Director > Demand Progress > > > *Demand Progress works to win progressive policy changes for ordinary > people through organizing, lobbying, and elections in the United States.* > > www.DemandProgress.org <http://www.demandprogress.org/> > > Paid for by Demand Progress (DemandProgress.org) and not authorized by any > candidate or candidate's committee. Contributions to Demand Progress are > not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. > -- https://corky.net/~zzzen/zzzen.asc 4759 A11D 6E05 D778 4A51 A002 A758 BD37 C2C1 AEFB
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