Where art thou (web-based) Opposition?

I thought of an idea that might help concerned bloggers unite. I wanted to do an affiliate system where bloggers can install on their website a small graphic, maybe something as simple as this:

I’ll offer it two ways, either with unique code that’ll distinguish one click from another, or just plain old code with an ahref link. Which leads me to my problem – where do I link it to?

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8 gadgets in 8 weeks

I have been tasked to write about one gadget a week for eight weeks, to result in 8 articles, aka a tech-writer’s dream, aka a golden opportuntiy to manhandle and abuse things I could never afford if I earn twice as much, aka an enjoyable and productive writing opportunity, aka a reason to blog about our country’s dire need of strong leadership and direction, the loss of quality professionals to nursing opportunities abroad, and the general decay and misopportunities befalling our nation.

Say what?

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Rethinking Google

If Google’s mission in life is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”, and Google’s main source of income is advertising revenue, in traditional web as well as non-traditional means outside of the web, does that mean that you can also interpret Google’s mission as “to organize the world’s information, make it universalle accessible and useful, and put ads in them?”