Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Editor's Note

For the past six - seven years I have been using a certain format to post stories on this blog. Picture or video, followed by a copy of a portion of a news story, it's link, and then other links that add content to the story. Unfortunately .... Google has now told me that because of copyright laws changing in Europe .... this is no longer permitted (they call it .... FRAMING THIRD PARTY CONTENT).

So there will now be a new format effective immediately .... and I can only hope that the Google Overlords will be satisfied with this change. If not .... well then .... I will then think of something else (i.e. create my own website independent from Blogger .... but with the same format).

I will also no longer be using any news links from Ireland, France, and Spain. And while I do not care about France and Spain .... Ireland does have a few good news websites .... unfortunately .... they do not like news aggregators like War News Updates.

7 comments:

Unknown said...

At this rate the news and media will face the same future as academia... walled gardens that infringe on the dissemination of critical information that should be shared without barrier.

Unknown said...

IM FROM IRELAND I HOPE YOU DONT STOP REPORTS AS WATER CHARGES DEMOS ARE STILL ONGOING AND STRONG DESPITE WHAT GOV ARE SAYNOVBER 60 PERCENT SAY THEY WONT PAY AND THATS LIKELY TO BRING IRISH WATER TO ITS KNEES DUE TO EU LAW IT BE GONE IF ITS NOT PROFITTABLE SO KEEP ON EYE OUT PLZ COZ THESE CHARGES COULD WELL BRING DOWN THIS GOV AS WE ABSOULTLY HATE THESE CHARGES AND JUST MAYB THERE WILL BE AN EARLY GENERAL ELECTION IF WE CAN BRING THEM DOWN OVER THESE UNWANTED WATER CHARGES EVEN ACTOR LIAM NEESON SAID ITS A DISGRACE PAYN FOR WATER

Matthew Putnam said...

Regardless of what happens, please continue your work. Many rely on your efforts and appreciate the time you invest into this blog.

Rhaegar said...

I agree, please continue this blog, also hope this problem with Google gets sorted out.

Anonymous said...

It's simply clueless to not see this blog as anothet channel that can provide additional traffic to their website. *sigh*

Jay Farquharson said...

If this becomes nothing more than a title, a link, a summary, and your comments, I'd still come here.

Who else provides so many links to Birkini Faso?

oldfatslow said...

They are the ones
swimming against the
tides of change. They
are all wet.

ofs