Rants and musings, without care for substance.
Posted in observations on Aug 26th, 2010
I find the election signs that are emerging from street corners and lawns up and down the coast to be incredibly tacky, especially when they disrupt an otherwise pristine landscape. They seem to scream “vote for me, because I don’t give a shit how this neighborhood looks!”
I’d make it a personal mission not to vote [...]
Posted in advertising, in the news, web sites on May 6th, 2010
When a social media magnate needs cash, how do you go about it? Historically, options have been limited. You can sell advertising space in the form of banners or buttons. You can sell aggregate data about your users activities to marketers. You can hold a bake sale. Or you can sell off a chunk of [...]
Posted in advertising, culture, privacy on Apr 22nd, 2010
I’m not a fan of Facebook.
For many people, Facebook is social glue; a social networking magnate that ties disparate groups and individuals together, sorted out in a neat little (and aesthetically pleasing) package. I admit that it can be difficult living without it. I know that I’ve sacrificed social opportunities by being out of the [...]
Posted in advertising, observations on Jul 4th, 2009
In the course of one hour of Comedy Central — watching Christian Finnegan — I observed no less than six advertisements with Transformers themes. Six ads in less than sixty minutes. That’s pretty heavy rotation, considering the movie is already out.
It seems like that’s a lot of different companies and products to be merchandised and [...]
Posted in advertising, observations, oddities on Jun 18th, 2009
GQ is still referred to as “Gentlemen’s Quarterly” on the spine of the print edition. That’s odd, since publisher Conde Nast puts out twelve issues per year. Actually eight issues worth if you exclude the advertisements, but that’s a tangential thought and one that could be directed at much magazines.
Posted in advertising, complaints, technology on Jan 29th, 2009
For all of its flaws and with all of the advances of DVD, I think VHS had a few notable benefits. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t miss futzing around with the tracking on an old tape. Or fishing the magnetic tape out of the VCR once it got frayed and ruined. What I miss [...]
Posted in advertising, oddities, youth on Dec 11th, 2008
I keep hearing advertising on the radio for Syke Energy Drink. Whether there’s a drink or not, the ads sound awfully familiar. It sounds like the writers ripped off the spoof ads for Brawndo, the “thirst mutilator” featured so prominently in Idiocracy (and now available as an actual product).
I’m fond of the Brawndo ads (linked [...]
Posted in advertising, archive, google, site news on May 17th, 2004
For reasons of personal preference and potential profit, this site has opted not to display Google’s image-based ads. Despite the option being made available to web publishers under the AdSense program, I doubt that I would see additional revenue from image-based banner ads.
Google’s decision to offer image-based advertisements as part of the AdSense program was [...]
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