I am a stockholder of Walt Disney. Many of you know that Comcast recently offered to buy Disney. And many of you might also know that Roy Disney and Stanley Gold recently resigned from the Disney Board of Directors to protest the financial management of the Disney Company and to attempt to wrest control of the company.

My angle on this is the Internet. Roy Disney (Walt's nephew) and Stanley Gold have used the usual financial public relations tricks to get their side of the story in the press. And, they have turned to the Internet to help in their quest.

Check out a terrific Web site called savedisney.com. The dissidents have a variety of articles and news about their plans and actions.

Now to one of my favorite topics --- the dishonest characters who run the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. Readers know that Jupitermedia feels that it was legally wronged in its treatment by the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in relation to its contract for the cdXpo trade show held last November. We have a laundry list of wrongs ranging from a variety of unethical actions to certain breaches of the contract. I have suggested to readers who are in the seminar and trade show business to stay clear of the Mandalay Bay ---I can assure you that you will get "the short end of the stick" on any deal.

Before I connect this to the Disney situation, let me digress some more. This past weekend I was driving and saw another interesting use of the Internet. A driver in front of me had a URL posted on the rear of the car that contained the brand of a car dealer and the word "sucks" after the brand. I decided to speed up and pass this fellow and noticed as I did so that he had the URL on all his doors too! Obviously this was one angry consumer.

Now to the Mandalay Bay. I have a hankering to create a Web site to spill the beans about the Mandalay Bay. I would not stoop to using the word that my "friend" in the car used for my possible Web site, but I could take a lesson from www.savedisney.com. Perhaps something like DonotdotradeshowsatMandalayBay.com?

The point of this post is that the Internet can be and is being used for all types of viewpoints. From the fellow on the highway to a financier like Roy Disney. And now perhaps to a fellow named Alan Meckler.