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Andkon is the shining bacon of the 21^st century, single-handedly leading humanity out of the uncertain present. Apart from managing the world's best arcade, he writes daily to cultivate the ignorant masses

Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land

Jul 20, 2006 @ 23:57

There's three Mideast problems right now: Israel/Palestine, Iraq, Iran. Here's a really neat video called Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land that dissects one those. It shows how the US media is manipulated to portray the Israelis in a positive light that's totally undeserved. It's 58MB, but it's worth the download.

red meat on Jul 22, 2006 @ 03:49 wrote

This has nothing to do with this, but I checked out and read your entire "Is Mozilla.org Bleeding Away Potential Users?" article in the Stuf Archives. Even though the article is seriously outdated, your page was much more user friendly than theirs. I just went and checked out the actual page, they don't even have a damn link to download firefox, or even to an info page about it. You have to search the damn site. They should've just taken your idea.

red meat on Jul 22, 2006 @ 03:50 wrote

Oh, I'm sorry. The site I'm talking about is mozilla.org. Not mozilla.com.

andkon on Jul 22, 2006 @ 05:18 wrote

Yeah. If you notice the evolution of mozilla.org/mozilla.com (check archive.org), you'll see that their designs have actually been slowly progressing towards my recommendations. Maybe two years in the future they'll have it like I had in two years in the past.

I also warned against the current stagnation in posts on Mozillazine, and of course was laughed at. I predicted that the rate of downloads would eventually stabilize so that Firefox's market share would really not grow. And for the past year, it's been stagnating around 10% without much movement. With IE7 coming out soon, Firefox is going to have a hard time reaching out to anything more than rabid fans. That could have been avoided.

For example, I did mozfest.com (still up), which says to test designs to see which design (or change in text, color, not necessarily anything major even) would garner the most downloads. The groupthink and arrogance of the Mozilla Foundation prevented them from considering it. It's really sad because a split run test that I proposed would have been REALLY simple to set up.

Considering that in the advertising world there's some banner ads that get 20X better click through rates than the average banner, it's really frustrating how supposedly brilliant people couldn't see how a simple test could have easily doubled or tripled (or whatevered) their popularity.

Firefox and Mozilla is going to be around for quite some time, but they're never going to beat or even come close to Microsoft's numbers in the browser arena. They kicked themselves in the balls too many times for that.

red meat on Jul 22, 2006 @ 16:44 wrote

Yea, I noticed they progressed more towards your idea in mozilla.com. I downloaded it, and it has it's perks, but I like IE much better.

andkon on Jul 22, 2006 @ 17:21 wrote

Another problem with the site is that it's not informational enough. Like Firefox has plenty of good features, but they don't actually tell you about it, so people obviously don't get those features.

The #1 advantage Firefox has over IE is TABS... Well, guess which button was NOT INCLUDED by default on Firefox 1.0? TABS! I mean it was like, what the fuck are you guys doing? So there went millions of people probably.

red meat on Jul 22, 2006 @ 23:41 wrote

Yea, I had to download a theme in order to get the tab option.

HalfwayJames on Jul 24, 2006 @ 05:29 wrote

I personally use Opera.

It gets the job done for me, and I think it works better than FireFox.

But what do I know, I'm an idiot.

andkon on Jul 24, 2006 @ 15:18 wrote

I like Opera the most as well.

Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land

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