Purity of ethics – not just for bloggers

one of the big on-going arguments that happens within the tech blogosphere has to do with bloggers accepting advertising. Whether it be the simplest form of running AdSense in the sidebars to full fledged sponsored posts nothing ... continue

Don’t blink or you’ll miss that ad

Ad supported this and ad supported that. Ads on buses, ads on subway cars everywhere you turn these days advertising is stepping out in some of the weirdest places. bloggers get a lot of flack for running ... continue

How many ways can I tell you this is a f#@*ing bad idea

    I am a strong proponent for bloggers trying to monetize their work. There is a very fine line though, that we walk between reasonable advertising on blogs and RSS feeds and poisoning the well. It is all ... continue

TiVo set to spam paused shows

Just to set the record straight I don’t own a TiVo mainly because it’s a U.S. contraption that hasn’t made it to north of the 49th parallel. So while it doesn’t really bother me ... continue

GigaOM: Goodbye FM - Hello IDG

In what can only be termed as a warm and mushy goodbye post GigaOM has joined the number of big name blogging properties that have left the Federated Media stable for other pastures. As Om Malik said ... continue

Wal-Mart sics the dogs of war on Black Friday Ad linkers

This kind of stuff is enough to turn the smile of the Wal-Mart Smiley character upside down. In the past Wal-Mart has been well know for siccing its legions of lawyers on any site that displayed any ... continue

There is stupid and then there is f*&^ing stupid

I really don't give a rat's ass that some of the blogging glitterati boo-hoo things like advertising on blogs or basically anything Web 2.0 and social media related. I firmly believe that if there are advertisers that ... continue

Google bids goodbye to Yahoo

Google has terminated its advertising services agreement with Yahoo! Inc. that was first announced in June. Yahoo is broken hearted that Google chose to withdraw from the agreement rather than defend the partnership in court. Google notified ... continue

Bloggers whining about political AdSense ads

It's bad enough that we have Web 2.0 and social media purest types who want us to basically give away all our work for free but because of the flaring tempers during this election we've got bloggers ... continue

Halloween or not this could be damn scary - nightmare warning

I got an PR email earlier today from Crispin Porter + Bogosky that could be responsible for birthing a whole new wave of nightmares that could reach well beyond Halloween. For those of you who might not ... continue

Yup, It’s true, we have influence - now what?

This is hilarious after a fashion. On one hand we had the big kerfuffle last week about blogs dying off and being replaced by microblogging services like Twitter, FriendFeed etc. Now we have Jupiter Research; who was ... continue

Akamai acquires acerno for $95 million in cold cash

Akamai Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire acerno for approximately $95 million in cash. The acquisition of acerno, a unique online co‐operative of shopping and purchase data for enabling more relevant online advertising, is expected to ... continue