Continuing on with the “Flash ads should never obscure content or functionality on a website” theme, today I noticed I couldn’t log into my Hilton Hotel account because of some stupid ad for an olympics panda bear.
Here is me trying to login (click on the screenshot to see the .mov screen capture).
The sound you [...]
Recording of me trying to follow a link in a Salon article today. Somehow I wish there was a code of online advertising ethics that stated One Must Never Obscure Content With Advertising but I’m not holding my breath for that happening anytime soon.
In the wake of my previous post and Gina’s PR blacklist that sprang from it, it seems like a good chunk of the PR industry is blogging about the things they should and shouldn’t be doing, but I’m not seeing a lot of practical real-world solutions that would work for bloggers getting pitched. All the [...]
I know it’s a cliché as a blogger to complain about public relations flacks sending you giant PDFs and weekly emails on topics you don’t care about, but recently I noticed my tried and true polite email saying:
Please remove my email address from your PR lists.
Thanks,
Matt
totally stopped working. Turns out that a lot [...]
I gotta say that I’m enjoying the Boing Boing redesign so much that I’m actually breaking down and making a real blog entry about it (as opposed to a witty twitter quip, or simple delicious link, or a lowly screenshot posted on flickr).
I thought the old design was showing its age and the ad layouts [...]
If you’ve followed this site for a few years, you probably saw my old essays introducing Google’s Adsense to the blogging public and that time I said ads in RSS were a no-no. Today I wrote an extensive update on the same subject over on my new blog: How ads really work (superfans and noobs). [...]
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