May, 9, 2001 archives

here's a solid article on internet advertising from webmonkey. i like the untargeted ads running on the various pages of the article. (the amount of untargeted advertising on the web is still pretty shocking.)

i distinctly remember this exact same thing happening a couple of years ago. there's nothing like an analyst trying to get press. (important point to note: it is the wholesale prices of cd-rs that will triple. retail prices are expected to barely wobble. this is how a market is supposed to work -- shrinking prices and margins. some day it will cost less than $20 million to tour space, too. should i make up some numbers and release a report?)

here's a feature that the administration of a chicago-area high school wouldn't allow to be published in the school newspaper.

it isn't a fabulously well-done piece (the "in the minds of murders" piece contradicts itself on the decline of voilence in schools), but it is pretty solid, and the outcome is interesting -- the internet let the students route around the censorship.

today's odd search request that led someone here. if they already knew the quote, what were they searching for? and how is it that one of my pages is google's first match out of all of the pages that contain that quote?

"content is not king" is fascinating. i love seeing where the money really goes.

an awesome observation from the "content is not king" paper: a participant in amazon's affiliate program can sometimes get more money from a book sale generated by a link from their website than the author does from royalties. (i've heard this before, in the context of authors being able to boost their take by being affiliates, but never really considered that the 15% affiliate commission could be more than the royalty being paid out.)