Does everything need to be a question? Do questions prompt clickthroughs? Is this why AOL seems to be phrasing almost everything on their welcome screen as a question these days? Is three questions on the above screen shot — Phenomenon or a Hoax? Does He Owe Apology For Visit? Have the Turkeys Been Saved? — going overboard? Do AOL’s editors realize this is profoundly irritating?

This is an interesting article from yesterday’s New York Times about political URLs. The gold rush of domain squatting may be long over, but at least one guy (check out the third-from-last paragraph in the article) is making some smart beer money.

Takeaway for marketers: Are you thinking ahead and nailing down all the relevant URLs for your growing company or marketing efforts?

What’s new and cool with Web mashups? Find out over here. Fascinating reading. (Thanks to Ray Podder over at Soflow for the heads up on this one.)

“The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.”
—Harlan Ellison

According to a government study, 1% of the Web is porn. Given that there are 100 million Web sites, that means there are roughly 1 million porn sites. So if your Web content filter is 99 percent effective (none are), that’s still 10,000 sites (and a lot of naughty photos!) that’ll get through.

It’s time to open up a .xxx domain, set content filters to block .xxx, and heavily fine any porn site that operates on a non-.xxx domain.