[NTLUG:Discuss] Shameless self promo (at end of article)

[Steve Litt]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:19:34 -0400
"Chris Cox" <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:

> http://www.itworld.com/software/364357/ubuntu-versus-linux-mint-whos-desktop-champ?page=0,1

Chris, please tell me it wasn't *you* who put all those obnoxious
advertising links in your blog entry. They converted an otherwise
entertaining and informative blog into an exercise in frustration. I
clicked on the "pocketbooks" link hoping to see just how expensive the
Unices of the day were (which was what you'd reasonably expect given
the context), and was instead taken to an Amazon.Com page hawking
purses and urban shoulderbags.

Links for "main memory", "phone runs on Linux" and "processor"
similarly led to sales pages. Meanwhile, certain other links led to
actual info pages, so the blog's links couldn't just be ignored in
toto. And of course it had enough double underline commercial links
that a reader's bound to pop up a couple, breaking his train of thought.

I think from now on, when I submit writing to a blog site, I'll license
it in such a way that they can't put advertising in the middle of it.
Before -- fine. After, fine. But don't bust up the reader's experience
with it.

You might want to tell Dmitri that if he wants your content free,
instead of for a dime a word, he darn well better keep his advertising
links out of your content.

Thanks,

SteveT

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