True, true.
"Ad agencies, in particular, are soulless holes, the precepts of whose business runs wholly contrary to good user experience practice."
Ad agencies are the new music industry
maybe blogging is better than twitter
Some interesting thoughts on the difference between blogging and using the various social media like twitter...
But it wasn't the same. I had gone from owning (most of) my content, to digital sharecropping.
source : Tantek
: "I was shouting into a vast echo chamber where no one could hear me because they were too busy shouting themselves."
source : The Life of Leo
Maybe we do put too much of our content in other peoples hands, twitter owns our tweets, flickr our pictures, slideshare our slides and youtube or vimeo our videos. At least on our own blogs we have control over whether or not we keep it, anyone remember Buzz...
Another Nail in the Pageview Coffin
Cool and long overdue. The sites that make me visit multiple pages for one article only make me use the reader functionality of safari.
And get annoyed...
"Think of how a typical user session works on most news sites these days. A user loads an article (1 pageview), pops open a slideshow (1 pageview), flips through 30 slides of an HTML-based slideshow (30 pageviews). That’s 32 pageviews and a lot of extraneous downloading and page refreshing.
On new msnbc.com story pages, the above sequence would register one pageview: the initial one. The rest of the interactions occur within the page itself. Can msnbc.com serve ad impressions against in-page interactions? Sure, and that’s key to the strategy, but as a user, your experience is much smoother, and as an advertiser, the impressions you purchase are almost guaranteed to come across human eyes since your ads are only loaded upon user interaction."
