↯ Nick Heer: It's About Audience

nickheer:

Let’s start with two silly points:

I will ignore your quip about fanboys. It’s a stupid word with unwelcome connotations that does not promote discussion.

Those are scare quotes.

(Sigh. I just can’t resist reblogging myself.)

How modest.

The parenthetical is self-irony.

Now that we got those out of the way, onto your substantial point:

Rather, I think it’s a case of unease over targeted advertising which mines your content.

So targeted advertising using keywords + algorithm is evil, but targeted advertising on niche sites is okay? The Syndicate etc. are targeted advertising. Again, I don’t have a problem with advertising. What I find rather bizarre is the skepticism of advertising from people who depend on advertising.

(Source: ragingthunderbolt)

4 months ago

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I wasn’t aware that Brooks had AdSense installed. That...rather hypocritical of him....
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Consider installing Ghostery. If...Marco’s site uses both Google Analytics
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nickheer reblogged this from ragingthunderbolt and added:

It’s still a lousy word....And what I did is called “snark”. Move along.
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See y’all in 2013.
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Let’s start with two silly points:...Those are scare quotes.
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Hey Raging Thunderbolt! Okay. So Marco’s post is basically saying...publishers are afraid...
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From ragingthunderbolt:...I will ignore your quip about fanboys. It’s a stupid word with...
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Max Jacobson at stuparker:...No, I don’t think that. But I also don’t think, as Marco...
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