It was an entertaining dummyspit by The Australian, but i wonder if we can just chalk it up to teething pains. RightThink has invested lotsa money over decades to dominate the pulpits, i see protracted virtual warfare as inevitable. News Corp & co will attack blogs/public interest media to try & mint credibility, unfortunately they burn more daily pushing their selfinterested delusional versions of news (Growth is Good, War is Peace..).

Interesting the subtle forms censorship can take.

Yes, I know I'm paranoid, but a funny thing just happened on my way to this forum.

On Thursday, 30 August 2007 at 7:58:17 AM I posted this post to the topic "The Last Refuge of the Intellectual Weakling": http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=950#16889 . The red 'last post' lettering duly lit up. Now I have observed that this red lettering usually stays up for a full two hours before any reversion to black in the event there is no continuing posting activity on the thread. I can recall frequently seeing such indicators as "101 minutes ago", "115 minutes ago", all in red, of course.

Well, blow me down if I didn't click past at 0909, just 1 hour and 11 minutes later, to find that the 'last post' indicator was black and said 'two hours ago'.

I suppose its one way of not letting other OLO surfers know that something might be happening on a particular thread. Or perhaps the red ink has run out in the server and the pages have defaulted to black? Either way, its hardly a red-letter day for OLO. Just sayin' .... cause I can't imagine what I could have said to provoke such a reaction if it was deliberately done.

Oh, and I took some screenshots. You know how it is with the Oldtimer's Disease, you just can't be too careful.