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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CNN Climate Spectacular Least Viewed Programming on Cable News
The Climate News Network (CNN) gave a platform to ten candidates over 7 hours of continuous Climate fraud. (As opposed to the non-stop fraud the Collusion News Network typically peddles?) The good news for CNN? It did better than their regular programming. But still worse than anyone else.
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
Before 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.
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.
December 19th, 2015
In our last live broadcast of 2015 we talk anti-gun groups, an energy paradox, Debates,Democrats Redistributing Democrat Data, Republican scheming, Budgets and spending, Immigration, and the latest in news, politics, and culture from GraniteGrok.com. New live shows begin Jan 9th, 2016
GrokTALK! November 14th, 2015
This week we are the guests with Grok Bloggers Kim Gilbert, Skip Murphy, Scott Morales, Mike Rogers, Kimberly Morin, Susan Olsen, Rick Olson, Don Ewing, and myself, on the issues of the day, debates, drugs, Democrats, Terrorism, Immigration, Snowflake U., and a lot more.
Commentary From Crooks On Journal News Gun Ownership Postings
“Having a list of who has a gun is like gold – why rob that house when you can hit the one next door, where there are no guns?” —Walter T. Shaw, Notorious Ex Burglar and Jewel Thief
On December 30, Steve shared with us about the Journal News and its’ December 22nd publication of each and every address of gun owners in Rockland and Westchester Counties, NY…replete with interactive maps. Moreover, Steve provided the names and addresses of the principle players at Journal News.
Steve makes a valid point here:
Because turnabout is always fair play, a blogger went and dug up the names and addresses (phone numbers and other contact info) of the folks at theJournal-News.
Furthermore, some people think that stopping a one-man crime spree is “criminal”….
This is from the commentary to today’s Union Leader article about crime-stopping hero Dennis Fleming…who was arrested and will be charged with a “crime” by a clueless (elected) county attorney, Thomas Velardi.
First, a comment from a retired police officer, Graham Baynes, as follows:
GrokTalk! Saturday October 21, 2011
Live Streaming local and National News with opinion you could only get from GraniteGrok.
The Media’s New Peep Show
Several in the New Hampshire dead tree press, and their digital protrusions, are jumping on the latest trend in information sharing (or lack of it, actually), the registration wall. The registration wall is similar to the pay-wall except that you can receive limited access (or metered) content for free, but only up to a point. It’s the velvet rope that leads to another velvet rope from which you can see through the open door, but no more. It’s like a peep show. People who want more will have to pony up their PayPal account (or any approved credit-card) for unlimited access. It’s the front page viewed through the bin. Drop in some change and you get to see what is inside.
This old frontier on the new frontier has or is being embraced by many of New Hampshire’s media ‘titans.’ Before you get to peek they want you to register, give up your email so they can tease you with headlines, and a password; six or more characters, letters and numbers, no tildas or ampersands or pound keys–oh my! "Sorry that password is already taken." The goal? It can’t be traffic or money.Take a look at the New York times for a clue. The graph pictured here gives you some idea as to the likely path to failure from a meter based viewing scheme with the option to buy.
Want to see something else startling, look here.
OK. So it won’t work for one of the worlds most well know left wing rags. But is local news compelling enough content to attract more people than might already be bothered to purchase the dead tree edition, (or a full boat digital subscription), on a platform that has little if any tolerance for distraction or delay, and trillions of other choices just one caffeinated-energy-drink-A.D.D-twitchy-mouse-click away?
They don’t even have to be better choices. Five seconds is five seconds too long and a death knell to your life-expectancy as a viable content provider. I’m wondering if they considered that? Or how about this?
Jury Nullification Bill In NH Senate
The New Hampshire Senate will be voting on HB 146 this week, a bill that would give the jury in any trial the power of nullification.
The Sweet Stench Of Left Wing Hypocrisy
The Union Leader wastes no time, exposing Hawkins connection to money she received May 11th from America Votes (out of state left wing donation), which Granite State Progress then used to support the Democrat in the special election she is squawking about, specifically to elect that democrat, in that election.
Is John Lynch In Trouble With Democrats?
The progressive socialists who pull the big red levers at party headquarters invest a good deal of political capitol on bashing big business and the men and women who run them so how do they reconcile their figurehead democrat pimping the potential for 1500 new manufacturing jobs in the state, created by some evil, free market, fortune 100 company?
Stephen Colbert’s Campaign Finance Lesson
“Why does it get so complicated to do this? I mean, this is page after page of legalese,” Mr. Colbert lamented. “All I’m trying to do is affect the 2012 election. It’s not like I’m trying to install iTunes.”
Right To Work Override
If Exxon Mobile demanded $50.00 per month from all its employees, every month, to pay for benefits and it’s political action agenda, the left would shit kittens, protest, and then engage in well funded, partisan series of lawsuits until the company was forbidden from using that money for political activity.
New Hampshire Got Jobs!?
How about some jobs? New Hampshire is reporting an April unemployment rate of 4.9%. … This is unlike last year when the initial “improvement” we saw was actually the result of workforce decline–people had stopped looking or receiving benefits and dropped out of the equation.
Government To Mandate PLAN Chip In Your Cell Phone
..your President wont have to worry about wasting a crisis. He can just create them as needed, and text them right to your cell phone. “Be afraid. Be very afraid.”
Hey Lefty? Wassup With the Health Care Waivers?
Here’s a nice video to get you primed up and ready to de-fang a union near you. It’s all about ObamaScare and the Democrat-Crony Waiver wire. Unions, Democrats, Hypocrites, Together.
Picture of The Day 5-17-11
Bob Gorrell