Okay, I have had enough of Google’s ridiculous bullshit plans to take over all data in the world surreptitiously and I am going to be pulling Google AdSense from *all* of my websites.
Right now, it looks like I have four main options for how to proceed:
Pull AdSense and do not replace it with anything.
Pull AdSense [...]
Paying in cash makes you a nuisance.
Physical paper records for transactions are frowned upon. (That way we can say you owe us whatever we want!)
Become accustomed to swiping an electronic identification tag. (Cash usage lowers reproductive viability.)
Smart Cards belittle your intelligence if you refuse to use them. Already rolling out in college campuses, which [...]
An Indian website is offering the equivalent of what I was describing as Tim Boucher Dollars.
Social Money program is an innovation by Indyarocks where the members will be rewarded for their day to day interaction with friends and family and it is also a way to reward user generated content (UGC).
As a member of [...]
Amy and I are in the process of scheduling a phone meeting to talk about community currencies. Here is her blog and a great article by her on local currency. Choice quotes from that:
Revolutions happen when a group of people decide that the system they operate within no longer shares the same values they do [...]
Google’s brand is entering a potentially lethal tailspin stage. Why? Because people are waking up to the fact that they are no longer a search company. They are an advertising company.
They do not bring you the best results. They bring you the best results which do not conflict with their advertising plans.
Therefore their [...]
Corporations pay taxes to governments which buys them enforcement of their business contracts. It’s not coercive or dangerous; it’s elemental human associations - and in a sense, it’s why this country was invented as a legal entity in the first place.
