Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Blogging| The Web| Web Performance| Work
3 Sep 2008Since I downloaded and started using Chrome yesterday, I have had to rediscover the world of online advertising. Using Firefox and Adblock Plus for nearly three years has shielded from their existence for the most part.
Stephen Noble, in a post on the Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals, seems to discover that Chrome will be [...]
In: Blogging| GrabPERF| Web Performance
16 Nov 2005Blogwise had a slight server issue earlier this month. Sven, the great guy who runs the service, posted a very open statement of what happened.
I’m very sorry if you tried to access Blogwise over the last four days and got either no service, or an appallingly poor connection. It looks like there was a multiple [...]
In: smp
4 May 2005Rick Segal compares the Microsoft advertising approach to the Marriott advertising approach — Dinosaurs v. blogging/podcasting. [here]
I am not sure why Microsoft is still running this hideous ad campaign. A few thousand copies of Purple Cow need to end up in the Microsoft marketing department.
The Loss of Blogging Voice, or Why I removed the Ads from my Blog
In: Blogging| Commentary| The Web| Web analytics| advertising| analytics| branding| reputation| social media
11 Aug 2009I have had advertising on my blog for as long as I can remember. Except for the period of time when I hosted the site at Wordpress.com, I have always had AdSense, Chitika, or some other ad services content being contextually presented to my visitors.
Frankly, I found having ads up on my site extremely hypocritical, [...]