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

Christopher Cox cjcox at acm.org
Fri Jul 12 16:39:50 CDT 2013


On 07/10/2013 12:29 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> 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.

Nope... typical of many popular CMS's out there, I bet is was automated.
I didn't even post directly to the blog.  Text was from email exchanges.

 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.

That one was my favorite (obviously finding more humor in it)...

> 
> 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.

It was a contest... so I did get a prize.

> 
> 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.

Oddly enough, he has a fairly popular blog.  Which of course, may actually help
him to pay the bills.  I have a  lot of ad blocking when I browse... so IMHO, it
was just the "auto links"... and that's not so obnoxious to me (especially since
its rampant on most blogs nowadays).

Looks like you may be able to post anonymously to his blog.. you can always
leave him a comment yourself.   Again, I find this sort of thing everywhere
now... so I just "brush it off" so to speak...





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