November 9, 2009

Dear Every Site That Paginates Articles

marco:

I’m sure you split stories like this into two pages for a good reason: to save my bandwidth. After all, the remaining 3,126 characters of the story’s body (1,530 bytes as transferred with gzip compression) would have increased the page’s total size by 0.32%.

No, I’m just yanking your chain. I know you’re double-charging your advertisers for the same story by artificially inflating your pageview count. It’s just like the old auto-frame-refresh trick, but this one’s better because most of the ad networks haven’t banned it yet. That’s their problem, right? Why should you leave money on the table? You’re a business.

But it doesn’t really work as well as you had hoped because only a tiny percentage of viewers will actually read page two. You know that, but you don’t care, because you won’t give up a chance to make a few extra cents. Who cares if it annoys the crap out of that tiny slice of your audience? Who are they, anyway? The people who actually read your content thoroughly instead of skimming the headline and moving on? That can’t possibly be your most important audience segment — they’re just the most involved and attentive. Repeat customers. You already have their “eyeballs” that you can sell to your real customers. And these dupes get their eyeballs double-counted. What a steal!

Keep up the great work, publishers.

dynamicdata: Peter Saville. You know.

dynamicdata: Peter Saville. You know.

via zehnuhr: Refill required - Shirt Design
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via zehnuhr: Refill required - Shirt Design

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Reblog with the design books on your bookshelf? (via justinbland)

Reblog with the design books on your bookshelf? (via justinbland)

November 3, 2009
courtneyc:

I’m always excited for client launches, but this one is particularly cool. The Rent The Runway beta launched this week. It’s like Netflix for dresses: rent a dress, wear it, and throw it back in the mail. I took a Brian Reyes dress for a spin at a recent wedding and it was awesome. Congrats Jenn and Jenny! [And if you’d like an invite let me know at courtney at hardcandyshell dot com]

wow, great innovative idea! Good looking website too.

courtneyc:

I’m always excited for client launches, but this one is particularly cool. The Rent The Runway beta launched this week. It’s like Netflix for dresses: rent a dress, wear it, and throw it back in the mail. I took a Brian Reyes dress for a spin at a recent wedding and it was awesome. Congrats Jenn and Jenny! [And if you’d like an invite let me know at courtney at hardcandyshell dot com]

wow, great innovative idea! Good looking website too.

jacob: I would definitely have to place this photo in the top ten best images on The Internet.

jacob: I would definitely have to place this photo in the top ten best images on The Internet.

whileyouwereout:

my super über wonderful girlfriend made me this for my birthday party invitation.the red nose is scruffy (a.k.a. psoriasis)

BRILLIANT! Also: congratulations!

whileyouwereout:

my super über wonderful girlfriend made me this for my birthday party invitation.
the red nose is scruffy (a.k.a. psoriasis)

BRILLIANT! Also: congratulations!

November 2, 2009