Kash Patel

Is that news or gnos?

This morning I am seeing reports that Kash Patel will be named as acting head of the ATF.  When?  Oh, sometime next week.  Probably. I think that would be a good thing, but as someone used to say, I’ll believe it when I see it. It reminded me that for a while now, it’s bothered … Read more

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Links Overflow

After compiling a yuuuuuge file of links that I’ve seen plus my comments, and from my Jarhead friend, and seeing how long it’s gotten, I’m putting it here this time – separate from the memes.  But a few memes scattered within as well.  I don’t want the links that I’ve compiled – important stuff IMHO – to overwhelm Monday’s meme post.

Peruse as you will.

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Liberal Foundations Offer 500 Million In Grants to “Revitalize Local News” (You Mean Progressive Echo Chambers, Yes?)

The Internet has eroded  institutional control over what ordinary people see as “news.” Corporate media are still thieves, but not as they used to be, while locals have been obliterated in print and online. Many struggle to keep the dream alive, but with significantly reduced staff and declining coverage, and now wealthy progressive foundations have come to the rescue.

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Victims Of A News Cycle On Steroids

Like everything else in the 21st Century America, the news cycle has evolved. This evolution has been happening for decades as we watched the slow death of print newspapers to digital versions. Still, even on a cellphone or tablet, the American attention span is inadequate to read news stories.

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The Melding of News and Entertainment

The Melding of News and Entertainment … This May Not be Helpful

Former news co-anchor Robert MacNeil describes the features of successful news programs this way. Keep everything brief. Do not strain the attention of anyone. Instead, you must provide constant stimulation. To that end networks use variety, novelty, action, and movement.

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Twenty Years of Communications Change

The majority of the recent change is the result of advances in communications inter-connectivity. The ability of people to get a lot of information for free is very recent. Was this one of the biggest tactical blunders in history? Was this decision to give away access to knowledge for free a mistake?

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Twitter Jail

GraniteGrok Goes to “Twitter Jail” For Tweeting Actual News

When I clicked the “button,” to find out what was wrong…Seriously? Steve “tweeted” out actual news and the twits at Twitter banned GraniteGrok?  The only remedy they give is to remove the tweet or do an “appeal”. It’s not fake news, not hate speech, no rant. Steve reported the actual New Zealand vote to take … Read more

As Grok Prepares To Take it to the Next Level It’s Time to See Where We Rank With Alexa

alexa traffic rankBefore we were hacked in April GraniteGrok climbed up the Alexa Rankings (for Online news or media sites in New Hampshire) to do battle with the top 5. The redirect did some damage to that, and we almost dropped out of the top ten.

That was not great, and we’ve written about the redirects that plagued readers, but some good has come out of it. We amped up the fundraising and our new Web site, which Skip lovingly refers to as Grok 3.0, is under construction. The new security is a lot better and we’ve got some very serious plans for this platform that will, yes literally, take us to the next level.

So what level are we on now? I asked Alexa’s ranking where we stood in the New Hampshire Political/News interwebs and here’s what I learned.

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WTF

What the…fudge happened in the past week that deserves the WTF classification? More than we could ever cover in 15 minutes, but here are a few recent examples, just to get you started.  

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