Conservative friend talked me into using Drudge as a links page

[LittleClarkie]

Hrm.

Remember the Yosemite Sam cartoon where he said he'd have to burn his boots after stepping on Yankee soil. It kinda feels like that.

Nevertheless, purely as a links page to all those different newspapers, several of them being liberal or at least good news sources, it is tempting to use the site as a starting point to read news like a fiend.

Anyone else wander over there and use his stuff? Got a problem with it?

[JuniperLea]

1. Only in that you make money for the bastard

every time you check in there...

[ret5hd]

2. well, you DO increment his hit-counter every time you go there...

just sayin'...

[ret5hd]

3. oops...dupe

[Moochy]

giving him traffic

He gets a pico-penny or something for each hit. better to starve the beast! ;-)

[Dr Fate]

5. Exactly- give those "clicks" tot he good folks at Buzzflash instead

www.buzzflash.com

[LittleClarkie]

10. He get's money for hits?

So every time you leave and come back, he gets money?

Okay. I'm outta there.

[charlie]

15. It works like ad revenues for any medium

The more eyeballs you can guarantee to deliver, the more you can charge for ad space.

[Moochy]

16. Impressions are less valuable than click-thru's

yeah its' counted as an impression for his banner ads..
.. you know the ones that say "Punch Kerry in the nuts and win a new Ipod"

or "How much do you love the president ? Take this survey to win a new Hummer 3"

[Dr Fate]

17. The amount of clicks he gets are provided for advertising data.

I'm not sure how all of this works- some other DUer can exaplain the details...


Use Buzzflash- they have all the same great links.

[Dr Fate]

4. I prefer Buzzflash - a Liberal site that has all of that too.

www.buzzflash.com

Scroll to the bottom for hundreds of news links from all over the world- pretty much the exact links Drudge has.

Send your advertising "clicks" to the good guys.

[LittleClarkie]

14. Okay, that's what I need

I want to expand my news reading. And if I can do that on a liberal site, then cool thanks!

[11 Bravo]

6. Drudge makes money every time you visit his site.

If you're already there, why not bookmark the newspapers or other sites you may wish to re-visit then leave, never to return.

[splat]

7. drudge.com is the liberal mirror site n/t

[XNASA]

8. Use Smudge Report instead.

http://smudgereport.com/

[Rosco T.]

9. Huffington Post www.huffingtonpost.com n.m

[norml]

11. Well yeah I've got a problem with it.

I wouldn't link to any of their sites, other than to point them out as examples of the evil movement that calls itself conservative.

[charlie]

12. You can grab his page

strip out everything but the links, and save it to your HD. That'll give you what you want without putting cash into Drudge's pocket. That site has made him a millionaire.

[Az]

13. A much better site to link to

http://moose-and-squirrel.com/infostop/infostop.html

Stop giving money to the RNC (aka Drudge).

[LittleClarkie]

18. Holy SHIT

Good site! Thanks!

[Viking12]

19. I find that LBN serves that purpose pretty well...

and the fine folks here at DU do a nice job at providing some analysis to go along with the news. :toast:

[LittleClarkie]

20. They do indeed. But I find I am lazy, and I'm absorbing too much analysis

and not enough news. I want to stop swallowing red meat whole and wade through some of it myself as time allows.

[zbdent]

21. I would link to it

but the wording of the link would be something like "Get a load of this pile of crap"

or

"And now for something completely stupid . . ."

[LittleClarkie]

22. When I say link to it, I mean using it as a home page.

No sir. Not gonna do it. Wouldn't be prudent.

(/poppy)

[LoZoccolo]

23. You could save a copy of the page on your hard drive.

You'd have an HTML file that would still have the links to newspapers in it, and you'd only have to visit it one more time. You could even still use the copy from your hard drive as your homepage.