If you think any of this gibberish looks interesting, you should poke around and subscribe to my RSS feed to keep up with new content.
Does anyone else think that this IntelliTXT style advertising that keeps showing up (on a lot of gaming sites, incidentally) is extremely annoying? The last thing I want to see while I’m scrolling through an article is for an advertisement bubble to pop up over what I’m reading.
One of the keys to successful advertising is not being annoying.
This is true for the product being advertised, and it’s true for the site the advertising is on. I’m going to steal a quote I saw recently to underline this:
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
If your site is annoying because of your ads, I’m going to visit it less often (unfortunately true for the Dilbert Blog, one of my favorites). I’m simply trying to escape a disagreeable situation.
ps. I’m downloading a file at 780 KB/sec! I remember when that was impossible, so this still impresses me.
pps. I need to find a good desktop blog client - that means a desktop app for composition that allows me to save and retrive drafts from my server. This is the second time today my browser has randomly deleted a half-finished post.
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Mike K 08.09.06 at 9:20 am
Agreed. Not just because it’s annoying, but completely irrelevant and interrupts your flow when you’re trying to read an article. These things are impossible to ignore and eventually drove me to install adblock on my browser. Only intellitext gets blocked, all the other adverts can stay until they start annoying me as intensely as intellitxt did.
Mike K 08.09.06 at 9:22 am
ps: as soon as I opened the page my mouse almost instinctively aimed for the “close window” button on the image of the intellitxt ad.
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