Archive for July, 2006

Jul 23 2006 at 3:28pm

Is Digg for Americans Only? … Is the Internet?

My boyfriend recently had a little encounter with some Americans on Digg. It seems that they had a problem with his some of his comments on and this article regarding the affordability of hybrid cars. You can find his responsein the first comment with the username “jeevesbond” (dugg down and out of view, use “show comment” to see it). Now, surely his comments were going to be a little controversial to Americans. I wouldn’t have posted that there, but the response is what was interesting.

Ad blockers and the future of website monetization

It seems like ad blockers are becoming more and more widespread. Now that pop-up blockers are established browser features, things are going even futher. There is the adblock extension for Firefox and content blocking in Opera (and requests for an adblock extension). Both browsers also have the ability to put in custom user stylesheets for individual sites, which many people are using to block ads. (sorry, I’m not sure what’s available for other browsers and as plugins for IE)

So what does this mean for website revenue? Will we have to find new ways to make money from our sites? How do you even know if a lot of people are blocking your ads? Do people only block the really intrusive ads or will they block everything? As ad blockers become more widespread, will online advertising disappear altogether?

Not quite sure what I’m doing here…

As you can see, it’s been a long time since I last blogged. I’m not really sure what I’m going to do with this site now. I’ve been spending most of my spare computer time either talking to liam or wokring on TWF so I don’t have much time for this stuff. I also don’t really feel the need to blog about yoga that much anymore, although I really should keep a journal of some kind.

What I might do is make this more of a web design blog, for thoughts and links and stuff that don’t really belong at TWF. We get more of a beginner/intermediate audience there and there often aren’t many others there who want to get into the more advanced topics. This could be an outlet for that. Liam and I could also start a blog together, which might be more interesting. He’s got a lot of thoughts about open source these days.

In the meantime, you can check out photos from my most recent trip to England!

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