“The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.”
sci-fi writer William Gibson
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Quote of the day #44
“He was high on intellectualism
I’ve never been there but the brochure looks nice.”
Sheryl Crow in Everyday Is A Winding Road
(proving, by paraphrasing it so delightfully, this line not to be autobiographical)
Spectacular Click Through Rate
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As the internet has been growing exponentially over the past 20 years, online advertising has become very big business. Most of it in the form of online bannering: various sizes of squares and rectangles with commerical messages, spread across webpages (usually at more or less fixed parts of the page layout, such as the area in the top middle of the page).
To the companies spending money on advertising, this form of online advertising was presented as very interesting because Continue reading
Quote of the day #43
“Clear communication is a disadvantage if you don’t have anything to say.”
Rik Torfs (Belgian canon law scholar and currently
rector of the Catholic University Leuven)
Quote of the day #42
“Have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand,
no liking for it merely for its own sake.”
Robert Moses (the man behind some of the biggest
building projects in 20th century New York)
Quote of the day #41
“Twitter is about sharing content for humans, not search engines.”
Mark W. Schaefer in The Tao of Twitter
What spam looks like in real life
[Notice: if at some point during the reading of this blogpost – which is partially an experiment in investigating decreased readability due to extensive use of side-thoughts – you have the feeling of losing track, an alternative version with color coding for improved readability is available here.]
If you’ve ever been employed in a sales position, chances are that at some point you had to work on a booth at a trade show. To an outsider this can look like pretty easy work: just hanging around on in some big hall all day and talking a bit to people visting the booth. Clearly those people have never had any first hand experience at it!
One of the surprising facts is that the work is actually more tiring on slow days, when there are not a lot of visitors to the fair, Continue reading
Quote of the day #40
“I’m not angry at all, I’m merely expressing myself clearly.”
Belgian philosopher Etienne Vermeersch
(to his wife, commenting on his apparently passionate tone of voice)
Happy Valentine
I’m not afraid of death, I only fear to lose the one I truly love.
Quote of the day #39
“Now what would you say, if I told you that
Everyone thinks you’re a crazy old cat?
Hey man, now you’re really living”
Mark Oliver Everett in Hey Man (Now You’re Really Living), one of the songs
on the Eels masterpiece double album Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
THE SECOND HALF 