Via Daring Fireball, a pretty smart analysis of Apple’s so-called “anti-competitive” moves in restricting third-party advertisers accessing user data for their analytics.
Fri 11 Jun 2010 | Posted by rocketpilot
Via Daring Fireball, a pretty smart analysis of Apple’s so-called “anti-competitive” moves in restricting third-party advertisers accessing user data for their analytics.
Wed 14 Apr 2010 3 notes | Posted by rocketpilot
Ebert is not amused.
There are deep tensions between freely available content creation tools, the need to those tools’ providers to afford to provide them, the users’ freedom to create with these tools. I think Ebert’s right to feel unhappy about the way these tensions are being resolved in Twitter. Clearly Twitter’s creators need income to keep going. And clearly the vast majority of their users wouldn’t pay for it directly. On the other hand, users are right to feel exploited when their words are used as bait. It’s just not how advertising is meant to work. Content creators and service providers should be compensated.
Sat 23 May 2009
Now that’s the kind of ad survey I like.
(via Daring Fireball)
(Text of image follows, because I can’t set ALT text with MarsEdit’s Tumblr image posting facility)
10. Would it be OK with you if The Deck started accepting
ads from any advertiser, including those for "male
enhancement" and "miraculous weight loss programs"
and then displayed them as huge animated boxes that
would occasionally block the content of the site and
require you to hit a tiny "close" box to get rid of them?
With only one checkbox option: “no”. Heh.
Nick Caldwell is a professional web designer and unprofessional writer who thinks far too much about aesthetics, the contemporary sociopolitical condition, video games, Doctor Who, and spaceships. This is his Tumblelog.
