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A collection of 6 posts

The unfortunate mainstreaming of internet douchebaggery

Today someone spammed MetaFilter on behalf of Conde Nast publications, and it pissed me off way more than the average occasional spammy self-promoter on MeFi. We have a strict rule at MeFi (since there's no editorial vetting upfront) that you can't post about your own stuff,

Someone wants me to install adblock

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.

Dear PR people: How to Pitch Bloggers

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

Stop asking, start filtering

I know it's a clichÃ© 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: Thanks, Matt totally stopped working. Turns out that

Boing Boing redo

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

Ads good! No ads better!

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