13th
January
2000
“Some of our advertisers … say that consultants and agencies recommend banners that mimic operating system interfaces, because these ads increase clickthroughs. So advertisers blindly submit ads that look like dialog boxes or download-progress indicators, aiming to trick people into clicking through to their sites. Know what? In fact, they do work … Know what else? Clickthrough rates mean nothing.”
posted in Advertising | Permalink |
13th
January
2000
“Born in Chicago in 1961, Daniel Clowes toils away in what has become, partly by default, the end-of-the-twentieth-century’s most important narrative medium: the comic book. After publishing six issues of the much-missed comic book Lloyd Llewellyn, and having contributed to Feral House’s ground-breaking book Cad, in 1989 Clowes created the comics magazine Eightball. Self-described as an ‘orgy of spite, vengeance, hopelessness, despair, and sexual perversion,’ Eightball has provided innumerable short stories and gags, as well as the graphic novels Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron, Ghost World, and Pussey! to a culture in its death throes; now in its twentieth issue, it has been one of the few consistently good things about the past decade…”
posted in Comics | Permalink |
13th
January
2000
“IBM won a record number of U.S. patents in 1999 as it sought to protect new semiconductor and Internet technologies. The government awarded IBM a record 2,756 patents last year, according to IFI Claims Patent Services, which tracks the number of patents issued, up from IBM’s record 2,658 in 1998.”
posted in Internet | Permalink |
13th
January
2000
“The editor of a respected Weblog recently quoted extensively, selectively, and, approvingly, from a very troubling document. This event raises a number of significant issues. How do we discern troubling content? How can we validate what we find? And What can we do about it?”
posted in Internet | Permalink |
13th
January
2000
“As a translator, I’ve had the opportunity to search the Web for some of the strangest subjects — and found them. The purpose of this Web site is to share some of the sites I’ve found, and the lessons I’ve learned about searching, with my colleagues involved in translation, as well as others who are fascinated by The Search… The Net is not all work for me; I am also fascinated by really interesting sites that ‘might come in handy’ some day. The result: Translators Site du Jour: Language Links Plus.”
posted in Language | Permalink |
13th
January
2000
2,000+ search engines, indices and directories.
posted in Searching | Permalink |
13th
January
2000
“…we at Ars Technica monitored the entire year in tech. We tested and tweaked and benchmarked every product we could get our hands on; we scrutinized technology trends, product announcements, corporate mergers, stock prices, controversies… Finally, when the year ended at midnight on December 31, 1999, we retired to the Ars Senatorial Chambers to debate which technologies, products, people, and events deserved to be honored with the tech industry’s most coveted award: the Arsward.”
posted in Technology | Permalink |
