On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 10:44:44PM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote:
Not us. The people on this mailing list are so unlike (for better or worse) your average monkey punching web user that some of us even have problems relating to normal society.
Heh. And that makes it a wonderful place.
I do. But I don't like it. But it's modern life. Ads everywhere. Qualcomm stadium. Petco Park. Cricket Amphitheater. McDonalds Elementary School, coming to a neighborhood near you.
It's amazing people are so easily tricked into thinking they don't have to pay for things. Obviously advertising works. The NY Times tried a subscription service for a while, and finally realized that "free" access with a small advertisement brings in a whole lot more revenue. It seems that the people who protest the most that they aren't affected by the ads are actually affected the most. I realize that they work, so I try to avoid seeing/watching them. It must be because the payment is indirect. I remember a roommate used NetZero because he insisted that the internet was supposed to be free. Directed ads can be quite amusing when you don't fit their usage models very well. gmail often gives me very strange ads, and I imaging that NetZero, since it monitors surfing patterns, wouldn't do much interesting for me, since I spend most of my time in terminal windows. The people they are targeting are the people that think the internet _is_ the web browser. David -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
