Under the circumstances, I think your choice of handle is regrettable. If you actually had anything to do with the Guardian, we’d be extremely ashamed of you.

The DRWG is basically recommending that everyone be pushed towards DAB, and Internet radio won’t get a look-in, even though that’s clearly against the best interests of the public, because Internet radio would clearly be more suitable for a sizeable percentage of the population due to the advantages that it already offers.

And not content with just pushing everyone on to DAB without informing them about Internet radio as well, the DAB industry even wants government to give them taxpayers’ money to help them with DAB transmission costs – so the public is basically being mis-informed and then asked to pay for the privilege!!

Right. Onto the DAB adverts. My website carries the odd DAB advert. So what? I’ve put a huge amount of effort into my website, and I don’t see why I shouldn’t earn some money from it. I can’t help what Google places in its ads – for all I know, the websites blocked could be replaced with new DAB adverts, so it would be impossible to block all DAB adverts. I’m not going to remove the Google adverts just because someone in the DAB industry or who’s a mate of someone in the DAB industry wants to accuse me of hypocrisy – look in the mirror before you can accuse me of hypocrisy, I could provide a list as long as your arm of DAB industry hypocrisies, and I don’t see any display of guilt coming from the DAB industry.

As for the price comparison pages. They’re helpful for search results, and they’re probably helpful for visitors as well, so I’m not going to remove these either. Ultimately, just like any website, what I want is traffic. They help with that (actually, my gut feeling is that they don’t help all that much, but they’ll help a bit). So if someone arrives at my website due to those pages who’s under the impression that DAB is oh so wonderful due to the way the DAB industry advertises it, and then they start reading my website and see the truth, those pages have done their job admirably well, wouldn’t you say, Grauniad?

You’re reaping benefits from the popularity of DAB radio. Define “popularity” how you will, but you believe the product is popular enough so that searches conducted for it will generate income and improve your search ranking.

The logic is robust, Green. It’s pure, unadulterated hypocrisy.

Re Grauniad, he’s already made the same comments a few times, and I’ve already responded to those comments, so I don’t see the point in responding again. If he were on Usenet he’d be labelled a troll anyway, because the fact that he just repeats the same things every time without actually discussing anything shows that he’s just trying to make trouble.