Anybody notice that half the articles in the paper these days are thinly veiled advertorial for a product or service? Here’s one from the BBC website: The Pac-Man game Google put on its home page gobbled up almost five million hours of work time, suggests a study. The playable version of the classic video game was put on Google’s front page on 21 May to celebrate 30 years since the launch of Pac-Man in Japan. The search giant reworked the […]
So here is my most successful ad campaign so far, with a staggering twelve click though conversions – for those not in the know about the inner workings of Google adwords – and I count that as pretty much everyone with any life to lead whatsoever – a “click though” conversion is when someone actually clicks on the ad and visits your site. So, from this we can conclude that the phrase “No Adverts Here!” is the best advert (this […]
Adverts masquarading as news. Hmmm, there’s a lot of this about these days. Read Flat Earth News for more information on the topic of the errorsion of proper reporting and the infiltration of press releases into the popular news. Depressing if interesting reading.
So I presume all my iPhone owning friends out there must have encountered the new terms and conditions for the iTunes store recently. I suspect you just pressed “Agree” and soldiered bravely on in the face of ignorance. Perhaps you didn’t notice what it said right at the bottom: Page 1 of 90 ‘ let’s just say that again: 1 of 90 – that’s NINETY pages of legalise to sift through (or I suspect not)
I love watching the world flash by from a train window, it’s one of my favourite things in the world. There’s something hypnotic and deeply therapeutic about the clickety-clack of the train trundling down the track and the flashes of light as the sun sets. These small vignettes of time were captured with Quadcamera on the train from Paddington.
Technology is for abusing, that’s my opinion anyway. Most of the great ideas in art, photography and other creative pursuits come from using an object in a way that was never conceived of by the manufacturer. Have a little courage, stop treating you telephone like a extension of you personality. It’s just a bloody phone.
So avid readers of this blog (I know there are at least two of you) will remember my amusement at Google’s lack of enthusiasm for the phrase “Bury those nasty corporations” in its ad words programme. The time for this to be processed has got me thinking about the approval process. Presumably if the automated system flags an advert as being “questionable” that is the machine cannot decide itself, it has to be inspected by a real human being. Right, […]
