Australia’s $164,000 web site !
p2pnet news view | Politics:- You know how we’ve been saying (repeatedly, over and over, and ad nauseum) how local taxpayers foot the bill for entertainment cartel use of national (and local) police forces as korporate kopyright kops?
It goes further than that in Oz.
“Taxpayers have spent 71c for every hit on Kevin Rudd’s stimulus website, new data released by the government shows,” says Australian IT, going on:
“The Rudd government spent $164,000 to set up the website, which provides details of the rollout of spending under the government’s $42 billion stimulus package, announced in February.
“Figures released yesterday show there were a total of 230,000 hits on the website in April and May.”
One phkn hundred and phkn 65 thousand to set up a web site?
And it only received 230,000 hits in eight phkn weeks?
“The figures also revealed the Rudd government had spent $7500 registering 121 domain names since it was in office,” says the story.
Seven thousand five phkn hundred for 121 domain names?
Let’s see, 121 sites at $20 (max) each equals (takes socks off to continue calculations …)
Australian IT has Liberal senator Scott Ryan saying, “$164,000 for a government propaganda website that is highly political is a lot of money to spend.”
It’s a lot of money for anyone to spend, let alone a government.
So is this it?
The story doesn’t say who was the beneficiary of Rudd’s largess.
Stay tuned.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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July 20th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Re: “So is *this it*?”
404 not found.
Link appears to have way too many characters.
(Or, am I missing something?)
July 20th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
@ DA:
Fixed. Thanks.
Cheers!
July 20th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Obushma’s recovery.gov costed 18 million dollars, 6 cents per person. It can sustain far more hits and is still fast, despite North Korea’s attempts to bring it down.
July 21st, 2009 at 6:49 am
This actually doesn’t seem like all that much if you consider they probably had to hire staff and management to build such a site. That’s probably only 2-3 people with lot of folks to interview/meet to find out what content they wanted to put on the site.
The actual making of the site is probably a small percentage of the cost of figuring out what to say and getting the agreement of the responsible parties.