Net activism: Stopping corporate media in its tracks
fed up | 23.03.2003 04:26
* Keep tabs on corporate media coverage (or lack of it).
* Increase the popularity of "anti-war" and "protest" as search words.
* Give them a lot of hits. This is great for their ratings if their servers can take it.
The search page of the selected site will reload every 10 seconds in a hidden frame as long as you leave this window open. If you have a high-speed connection you can monitor multiple sites simultaneously by opening this page in several windows.
This tool uses ordinary HTML and JavaScript and will work on your own computer or any website. Download a copy of this webpage (address above) to your computer, unzip it, and click on index.htm to bring it up in your browser (you must be on line). No installation is required - it's an ordinary web page. This nice little gizmo will automatically do a search on CNN (or the White House and other sites) for "anti-war protest" and will repeat it every ten seconds.
This may not seem like much, but 3000 people with this page open in just one window would give them a million page views per hour.
Sure, you can just use the page at the above address, but web sites can easily be hacked down so it's really better to get your own copy. If you have your own website, consider posting a copy there.
Also, here are some other net activism pages to check out:
http://bristol.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=4259&group=webcast
http://nowar.julez-edward.be/
http://mathaba.net/home
fed up
Homepage:
http://www.kbiz.ca/wartools/