Posted: Jul 23, 2012 5:54 pm
FACT-MAN-2 wrote:
Yes but that's only the beginning, you've got to have a machine on which to host a site and you have to acquire some kind of software to facilitate a dialogue among your users, and then you have to maintain your setup. Nevertheless, I agree that it's within the financial realm of many, many people and groups or organizations.
The other problem is getting lots of people aware of your site, which is no mean feat.
To arrive at the £20/year figure I took into account having a domain name and renting a server to host it on. The software required to host a website, blog and forum is usually free and open source.
Yes its hard making people aware of your site, but there was the same problem when the printing press got started. They solved it by activists being active and selling papers whenever they could. We can do a similar thing with internet sites (hence this thread)
1. http://realclimate.com/
2. Climate science from climate scientists. A one stop shop for hundreds of articles explained climate change and refuting right-wing myths.
3. Take a look at the index page.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar ... /12/index/
1. http://www.marxist.com/
2. This website posts news and opinion articles from a marxist perspective. It writes in many languages and appears to have people contributing from around the world.
3. http://www.marxist.com/capitalism-versus-science.htm
The most recent and blatant example of private ownership serving as a barrier to advancement can be found in the Ida fossil. Darwinius masillae is a 47 million year old lemur that was recently “discovered”. Anyone and everyone interested in evolution cheered at the unveiling of a transitional species, linking upper primates and lower mammals.
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So what does Ida have to do with capitalism? Well, she was actually unearthed in 1983 and has been held by a private collector ever since. The collector didn’t realize the significance of the fossil (not surprising since he is not a paleontologist) and so it just collected dust for 25 years.