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Real Blogs Don't Have Interstitial Ads

34 points by solipsist 16y ago

atgm 16y ago
"They aren’t as bad as the ridiculous ads that float over the text you’re trying to read, but they are in the same ballpark." The ads I really detest are the ones that are in the background on the margins on either side of the content; when you go to click the window to make it active for some reason, you end up clicking on an ad.
- some1else 16y ago
  I like the part where the ad doesn't show up because I've blocked it.
some1else 16y ago
Real Blogs Don't Have Six Hour Meetings To Kill A Nagging Feature Which May Or May Not Have Been Bestowed Upon Them By Their New Corporate Overlords. TechCrunch is a real blog either way. However, this article could be more of a useful tutorial on dodging bullets and shifting blame, than a post I'd expect from Arrington.
noibl 16y ago
So far my internal requests for more information have been ignored. So who are you to be writing posts about it then? Maybe you need an anonymous tipster within TC to deliver the scoop.
goombastic 16y ago
Ok, here is how it works. Many "real blogs" have an agenda. They don't need ads. Maybe it's a friend's product they review, or an opinion they post, as long as they have an influence on you, ads aren't needed. Ads are for when your audience is so large that you don't have a single message that reverberates with all of them or a significant percentage of them. Ads are also good if you might want to change positions about an issue/product/agenda later. A nice little trick next time you read anything. Identify all the proper nouns in a passage, compile up the adjectives as well and take a fresh look at the whole article.
jdp23 16y ago
Looks like Dell is really getting their money's worth for that ad. Do you think the salespeople put it in writing that Dell would get an Arrington "news" article featuring the video? Or was it just a "nudge nudge wink wink" kind of thing?
revorad 16y ago
Is it just me or has there been an uptick in the number of TC stories on the HN frontpage?

34 points by solipsist 16y ago

atgm 16y ago

"They aren’t as bad as the ridiculous ads that float over the text you’re trying to read, but they are in the same ballpark." The ads I really detest are the ones that are in the background on the margins on either side of the content; when you go to click the window to make it active for some reason, you end up clicking on an ad.

some1else 16y ago
I like the part where the ad doesn't show up because I've blocked it.

some1else 16y ago

Real Blogs Don't Have Six Hour Meetings To Kill A Nagging Feature Which May Or May Not Have Been Bestowed Upon Them By Their New Corporate Overlords. TechCrunch is a real blog either way. However, this article could be more of a useful tutorial on dodging bullets and shifting blame, than a post I'd expect from Arrington.

noibl 16y ago

So far my internal requests for more information have been ignored. So who are you to be writing posts about it then? Maybe you need an anonymous tipster within TC to deliver the scoop.

goombastic 16y ago

Ok, here is how it works. Many "real blogs" have an agenda. They don't need ads. Maybe it's a friend's product they review, or an opinion they post, as long as they have an influence on you, ads aren't needed. Ads are for when your audience is so large that you don't have a single message that reverberates with all of them or a significant percentage of them. Ads are also good if you might want to change positions about an issue/product/agenda later. A nice little trick next time you read anything. Identify all the proper nouns in a passage, compile up the adjectives as well and take a fresh look at the whole article.

jdp23 16y ago

Looks like Dell is really getting their money's worth for that ad. Do you think the salespeople put it in writing that Dell would get an Arrington "news" article featuring the video? Or was it just a "nudge nudge wink wink" kind of thing?

revorad 16y ago

Is it just me or has there been an uptick in the number of TC stories on the HN frontpage?