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If you are, I assume, against the conflation of money and speech, why do you have "sponsored stories" (paid speech) on Boing Boing? Do you feel there was adequate disclosure of paid speech on this Boing Boing article? Do you think the energy, enthusiasm, and excitement over your "Comcast Town Apartment" undermines your mission to have a real dialogue with the public over important issues that matter?

Comcast (a BB sponsor) is holding a contest in which you design your own virtual apartment in "Comcast Town." They invited Boing Boing to judge but, even more fun, they asked us to suggest some Boing Boing furniture that people could use to decorate their pads! Above is the living room I designed. (I'm obviously not eligible to win. Sniff, sniff.) Notice the steampunk computer, carnivorous plant, and Flying Spaghetti Monster statue. I think the illustrator did a terrific job. In fact, I wish it was my real living room! The grand prize winning design gets a real-world room remodel, 40-inch HDTV, a new laptop, and a digital phone. I'm just helping select the ten finalists -- then it's up to The People. Comcast Town

http://boingboing.net/2009/04/23/boing-boing-apartmen.html

Hi Cory,

I see you'd rather not reply to this as you've replied to most every other post around mine, and I suppose I understand why you wouldn't. Maybe then I'll ask a follow-up question. How much do you agree or disagree with other Boing Boing spokespersons' "sponsored stories exist, do not discuss them, case closed" position of paid speech on Boing Boing?

Ad policy http://boingboing.net/policies#Ad

It's substantially unchanged for years and will not satisfy you, because it still permits that kind of item.

Besides, if you stopped reading BB because of a disclosed, sponsored post about some corporate thing, you just don't trust us and will only get angry again sooner or later.

Rob

(Rob Beschizza, Managing Editor of Boing Boing)

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I think that we get that some of you aren't comfortable with the sponsor. As is obvious, this sponsorship hasn't changed your ability or BB's willingness to criticize Comcast. The subject is closed. If you don't want to participate in the contest, move on to the next post. If you do, good luck.

(Antinous, lead moderator of Boing Boing)

Specifically with respect to Rob's point about this being a disclosed sponsored post I'd like to reiterate my original question: Do you feel there was adequate disclosure of paid speech on that Boing Boing article?

Hi, thanks for Opera! I used Opera through Opera 12 until a few months ago (never used post 12 beyond trying it out). My favorite Opera features were mouse gestures, tabbed browsing, content blocker, speed dial, custom search keywords, "." find in page, and many other useful odds and ends. I'm looking forward to trying Vivaldi :)

My question - having not done much JavaScript development but having had the opportunity recently, what roles should the browser play in script authoring? Should a browser play the role of IDE, debugger front-end, debugger back-end, DOM visualizer? Does it integrate with external third-party IDEs or tools for debug-time? Is there a philosophical difference between debugging DOM / code and debugging a particular browser runtime environment's visualization of the DOM or execution of the code?

Finally, what are you most excited about that's being done to make client-side scripting in general and JavaScript in particular suck less?

High Speed was in my house since I was about 2, and is currently directly behind me in my office. In fact, here's a picture of my coworker hacking it by sniffing the CPU, listening for score updates and sending them to a computer over a COM port.

http://i.imgur.com/8DN0Z32.jpg?1