Text Message Favorite Artist on Stage with Pocketfuzz
Text Message Favorite Artist on Stage with Pocketfuzz
The last concert I went to was a Black Sabbath reunion at Oz Fest. When Sabbath came on stage lighters flickered in the night and the air was filled with the aroma of oregano incense. The crowd swayed to the music and sang along with the lyrics. Bras flew onstage and television cameras captured the […]
Douglas Crockford?s Elements of JavaScript Style
Douglas Crockford micro-blogged it best:
I have been at Yahoo for two years. One of the first things I did when I got there was to do a View Source of the front page. That gave me a lot of visibility into how things were done. I also saw some things to improve. That inspired me […]
Ethics: By blocking web ads, am I stealing?
Most of the free content online is supported by advertising. But most advertising is designed to interrupt the content. Even Google’s supposedly helpful text ads are, in the end, a distraction; otherwise people would just search for ads instead of real results. Most ads are worse, a moving distraction while I’m trying to read text. So since the dancing cowboy will never make me buy , is it wrong if I just block them?
Political blog Daily Kos asks ad-blocking users to buy a subscription. Technologist Nick Carr says that Google and other ad servers should ignore ad-blockers and bet that the habit won’t become popular. The New York Times only teaches the controversy. How about you — got a good excuse for why you block ads, or a good reason that you don’t?
[”Ethicist” image stolen from this blog]
Beyond.com is a new job portal website that aims to service every aspect of job hunting and hiring for job seekers and employers.
With editorial content such as articles on corporate America, finding a new job, and choosing the right career, Beyond.com is similar to Monster.com or CareerBuilder in that it wants to be more than […]