I’m tired of the ad supported model for crappy web content. I don’t feel it’s working to support high quality information, or informed decision making. I’d like to suggest a simple change in activity that can correct the failure of the current ad supported content system, and it’s not ad block. Click every ad on worthless pages. Seriously click every ad on a page that frustrates you. Drown the page in clicks but don’t sign up or buy anything. Devalue each click into non existence for that web property. They won’t get repeat advertisers if your click spam turns into nothing, and either they’ll get better content or die off.
Tag: social design
The Rise of Net Nations and Political Mobility
I’ve often wondered why I’m subject to the higher taxes of social democrats, while also forced to obey the restricted individual rights of conservative republicans. It is the product of a forced convergence of basic rights, local law, and philosophical/behavioral legislation which I believe can be decoupled.
Patent Taxing Startups is Like Child Labor
And yet that’s precisely what patent trolls are doing, and what people like Fred Wilson^ are working to reform (Bilski & Patent Reform). It’s even more ludicrous than kids working, taxing startups at their first sign of health is like forcing a newborn to work just as they begin breathing. (more…)
The Promise of Telepresence, the Reality of Blogs, and Scaling Problems
We are hardwired to understand subtle social signals. Complimenting the innate, there are complex forms of social pattern recognition learned as children that our minds instantly identify. A faint look of disinterest, a momentary glossiness of the eyes, and a muffled sigh all are immediately signals that a person has lost interest in a conversation topic. None of these instant feedback signals are available to web publishers and a merging of regular web logs with real time video feedback could provide valuable utility. (more…)
Evolution Accelerates, We’re Changing Faster
Tech Echos, Hackers and DJs
Trey Ratcliff hacks out nature and photo tech with his HDR magic
Early adopting members of the tech savy crowd experience the boon and bane of raw and unpolished software architectures. It feels like everyday a new niche microblogging site with a different feature set sprouts up to fill a perceived demand from it’s designers. One of the striking similarities is the repurposing of existing open source utilities but with a novel arrangement and usually a leaner focus.
Memes, Viral Social Patterns
Harmony between Community and Transients
Global Communication for Free
Organizations where founders are at the bottom, universal ownership
It’s healthy, especially for a startup nut like me, to consider other community formats besides the classic capitalistic new business. If you believe in an idea enough, the concept of creating financial capital with it fades off of the priority list. Sure, this is supposed to be at the core of altruistic non-profits, but they appear much more like corporate structures from the outside in the way they are managed. I’m more curious at what’s left in the wake of the elephant of financial growth or personal greed vacating the room.
