I have something else new today. I set up a page where you can add your own links. Think of it as text ads for free. Just add a title for your link, the URL, a brief description, and you’re done. I really don’t care what links you add for the most part, but try and steer clear of the pr0n. It’s been done to death.
Other than that, let the games begin.
Joe’s article, Microwhoring, is very much in line with my thinking when I discussed advertising strategies. I think the web is a hard place for advertising to be right now. Online advertising has already instilled in us a certain animosity, by being overzealous, and treating us with little respect. I still think the gameplan needs to be completely rethought if it’s going to survive let alone thrive.
What follows is an accounting of events surrounding comments I made in reponse to a post by Brett. His post was in response to recent goings on in Helena’s journal.
My comments were originally posted in Brett’s journal anonymously, since that was the only choice left open to me as a non-livejournal user. To be fair, I suppose I could have left a name or email somewhere, but that’s livejounal’s failing not mine.
Once posted, Brett commented, and I had hoped to have the opportunity to respond, but found that anonymous posting had now been turned off. This also now left me unable to respond to further comments by others that had read my comments and responded. In the meantime, I had what I thought was a brief and productive dialogue with Brett, via email, in which I had a chance to qualify my arguments and points, as did Brett, but the problem now lies in the fact that Brett decided to delete my comments and his responses. He did this for his own reasons and did not inform me he was doing so or why.
So in an effort to reinstate some of the continuity that was broken, I’ve included my response here.
I added links to the comments where I think they originally occurred, but both mine and Brett’s original comments were deleted which makes it difficult to be precise. I do so dislike senseless censorship.
Well, Mena’s Coloring Contest is over. You can now review the results. I still think mine should have been in the running, but what can you do. Nevertheless it was fun. And that’s what it was supposed to be.
I have a new feature I’ve been playing around with. Putting my links in the sidebar. It works in IE5+ (not sure about earlier versions), Netscape 6 and current versions of Mozilla. Just click the link under the random linkage that says “open in sidebar”. Netscape users need to have My Sidebar open for this to work properly. When Netscape asks if you want to add the tab to your sidebar, click “Yes”. I promise it won’t hurt a bit. Enjoy.
Please let me know if there’s any problem with it not working.
Remember: this is for IE5+, NS6, and Mozilla only. It doesn’t work with earlier versions of NS or IE, and certainly not with Opera, so I don’t want to hear about it.
Thank you. You may now return to your regularly scheduled browsing.
For the blogger who wants everything, there’s BLOGSTICKERS™. The blog – opensource Blogsticker community.
I openly laughed at “The more people I meet, the more I like my Blog.”
Another meme that I’m sure is sweeping through the community even as we speak.
My blogger code is:
B5 d+ t+ k+ s u f i o x e++ l+ c
Looks like someone’s taken a similar idea, and given it life. Seems like a cool start. [via caterina]
At approximately 10:45 AM an Air National Guard F-16 crashed in Little Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey. It did not crash into a populated area, but apparently some debris spilled out onto the Garden State Parkway. It was supposedly on a training mission. The pilot has been taken to the hospital for minor injuries.