I read the Politics section of Original Signal, which means I get the finest both hemispheres of the political blogs have to offer, including those to which I am diametrically opposed.
I've noticed quite a bit of "upgrades" and "updates" at LGF (that's Little Green Footballs, and well, I'm not linking to them), and I wonder what they're up to? The most reason one that caught my eye was a redirect so that visitors from LGF Watch would instead go to the homepage of the Israeli Defense Force. It's tempting to contemplate skullduggery, but as LGF is a high-traffic site, I was wondering what they were up to.
"Pagination": For the sake of slimming down posts, comments are presented More pageviews equals a more popular blog equals higher revenue-per-click.
"Manage your Account": If you browst to LGF and sign-in, and then leave, that cookie is active that entire session. I wonder what effect this has on what a server would record as time-on-the-site?
"Encryption": Strongly encrypted cookies? What are these people expecting?
I am so not looking forward to this long election season…
Tags: Encryption, high-traffic site, Israeli Defense Force, time-on-the-site
