I offer this image as an example of what passes for news today. From the NBC Washington website: after viewing some photos of a construction crane that toppled at the Washington National Cathedral, I was offered these additional slideshows I “might like.”
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Revenue
Washington Post.com, which is already inundated with ads, has now added the intrusive full page ads which require you to wait to read the story.
Boo. Hiss.
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Mac not supported. But it looks nice.
I just saw an ad for Comcast high speed internet, the service I (reluctantly) use. All the computers shown in the ad are Macs – an iMac, a PowerBook, etc. But Comcast doesn’t support Macs. (Well, because a [more...]
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