“What we weren’t expecting is so many people were blocking ads and didn’t even know it,” he said. “It left a lot of people very confused. They started digging around, wasting an hour trying to fix their broken computer.” There was nothing on the site to explain to readers why content had been blocked.
An article about the shenanigans I pulled last Friday on WSJ.com:
A Conde Nast site’s attempt this weekend to block users who block ads presents yet another question about the painful transition from traditional to online media — what to do about anti-ad software.
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Did you know that blocking ads truly hurts the websites you visit? We recently learned that many of our readers did not know this, so I’m going to explain why.
From Ars. Also 1165 comments, all of which and a lot of which I have replied to x_x
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Heart-shaped biscuits and gravy (via 704 Race)
Huh!
Imagine if, one year ago, Congress had passed a stimulus bill that really worked.
Let’s say this bill had started spending money within a matter of weeks and had rapidly helped the economy. Let’s also imagine it was large enough to have had a huge impact on jobs — employing something like two million people who would otherwise be unemployed right now.
If that had happened, what would the economy look like today?
Well, it would look almost exactly as it does now. Because those nice descriptions of the stimulus that I just gave aren’t hypothetical. They are descriptions of the actual bill.
I must say I do make a fine burrito. Contains:
* Potato
* Onion
* Bell pepper
* Chili Powder
* Jalapeño
* Egg
* Turkey Sausage
via DaringFireball
A breakdown of user’s ages on different “social networks”
Study: Ages of social network users | Royal Pingdom
Data from Google Ad Planner
Interesting stats on the average user’s age on different “social networks”
Study: Ages of social network users | Royal Pingdom
Data from Google Ad Planner
Grinding that meat (via 704 Race)
Dork burger (50% Duck + 50% pork). We ground the meat ourselves and it was very delicious! (via 704 Race)
