Today's QOTD comes from The New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell. It's a terrific three-page article about the web's ideas of "free". I love that expression "close enough to free to round down". The New Yorker's website has ads all around its content as do many other websites. Like most internet users, I don't even notice them. Even the pop-up ads that are getting better at getting through our pop-up blockers and staying up for a period they think is long enough for us to read go unread. I think internet ad revenue will ultimately dry up mainly because too many people ignore the ads. What then?
64 days until football season ...
Quote of the Day
If you can afford to pay someone to get other people to write, why can't you pay people to write?
Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker
Blog of the day here.
Quote from said blog: "After leaving Forest Lawn, I made a quick pass through downtown, where there seemed to be more T-shirt sellers and cops on the streets than grief-mad fans."
I just stuck small Google Ads on my site out of curisosity more than anything else.
I, like you, don't see ads. Before I added AdSense I made a round of the blogs I read to see who had ads and who didn't. I was surprised at the number of blogs I read that have ads... I'd never noticed.
Another surpsising thing to me is when I'm at a site -- like a major media site -- that have adds like "Hilliard Mom loses 47 pounds following one rule." That's BS (unless the rule is burn more calories than you take in) and I've got to believe the workers/admin for the media source would know it's BS. I know they're not supporting the thing I perceive to be a scam... it's just odd to me. (And I've certainly not explained that well.)
The other ad I see goes something like, "You're the Hilliard winner of an iPhone." Which suggests I see BS ads with my hometown mentioned in them.
Had I known this comment was going to be this long I'd have made it a blog entry.
Looks like a lot of those ads target your ISP. When I see them, it's a "New Orleans mom loses 47 pounds".