I’m sitting here watching the opening ceremonies for the Olympic Games, and I’m growing increasingly annoyed at the annoying pop-up ad for Sherman’s that WEEK is running. It’s bad enough during regular television shows because they tend to make it hard to get lost in the story. But the graphics are covering up the information [...]

Consider, please, these paragraphs from the Wall Street Journal:
But time may be running out. Now, for the first time, pure-play Web companies have the biggest share of the local online-ad market. In 2007, Internet companies had a 43.7% share of the $8.5 billion local online-ad market, while newspaper companies had a 33.4% share, according to [...]

I just now received this in my inbox:
It has come to our attention that invalid clicks have been generated on your Google ads, posing a financial risk to our AdWords advertisers. Please note that any activity that may artificially inflate an advertiser’s costs or a publisher’s earnings is strictly prohibited by our program policies.
We understand [...]

I am really loving the response I’m getting for the current theme, “Quadruple Blue.” It allows for four columns, which I really like, yet doesn’t look cluttered.
I’m going to bite the bullet and switch to this one permanently, or as permanent as I get. I’ve giving myself some incentive by posting a counter in the [...]

I’ve expressed my admiration for Jeff Jarvis many times on this site. Once again, he impresses me with his advocacy for rebuilding newspapers from the ground up, taking into consideration that their Web sites can and will become more important their their dead-tree versions:
And newspapers have to take an even more frightening step: They need [...]

*ahem*