With more and more users accessing websites through mobile devices, and news that Apple is going to let users block ads on websites on those devices, what comes next? What will the web look like if the advertising market dries up and websites can no longer turn a profit from it? Will we see more…
Actual comment I made, in real life, over the weekend: “They know they can just make their own Facebook Page, right? I mean it’s easy, it’s free, heck I have four of them.” Sadly, this would make sense if I were in marketing, or running social media for a brand other than myself, but that…
Can’t say enough about the importance of considering your personal brand when it comes to social networks, blogs, and other online presence. There simply is no excuse these days for not networking, connecting with folks in your industry and using these tools in some way to show off your knowledge and skills. It absolutely helps…
If you’ve been around here for long, you likely know that sometimes, I just like to change things up and see how it works out. The whole point of hosting my own websites has been, in part, to dabble, so occasionally, I’ll dabble in a new direction. While over in Australia last week, I decided…
Between last week’s news that Google might be putting in a feature to block flash ads from automatically playing, and this week’s news that Apple is including ad-blocking as part of the Safari browser for mobile, am I the only one who wonders how the ad-supported web economy will survive?
Majority of Democrats, 37 percent of GOP want to repeal the First Amendment. This is absolutely frightening to me. It’s also sad that we have reached a point, as a society, where we only want to be so comfortable with our own ideas, and not challenged by other ideas, that we’d be willing to give…