We need to transition to clean advertisement
We need to move from dirty advertising to clean advertising. The best way to do so is to ditch personalized ads and move towards content-based ads. Just like…
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Category Error: Tracking Ads Are Not a Funding Mechanism
This article is part of 20in20, a series of 20 blog posts in 20 days to kick off the blogging year 2020. This is 20in20:01. A note to…
Guardian: We need to become a platform!
Now here’s a bold move by a major newspaper: The Guardian is becoming a platform. And boy, is that a smart move compared to many other newspapers that…
Vaynerchuk on Social Media ROI
Gary Vaynerchuk strikes with another awesome rant: “You Down With ROI?… Yeah You Know Me“. Are social media in trouble because of the U.S. financial crisis? Nope, it’s…
You donated $9.55 to EFF through my ads (thanks!)
A little while back, I proposed to run social ads on blogs and to donate the revenue. This, it seemed, would be the easiest way to raise some…
Ad-Activism: Support something good by clicking those social ads
Lately I’ve been approached by a folks who were interested in advertising on this blog. Although the blogger in me was flattered, I wasn’t so sure I even…
Facebook Beacon is Serious Breach of Trust
Facebook recently introduced Facebook Beacon, a new technique for businesses and website operators to “enable your customers to share the actions they take on your website with their…