January 21, 2004
Kerry 2004, paid for by Howard Dean
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Purposeful web sites are making a mistake by inserting googleads. |
| While acceptable for your web site to agree to have a sponsor, and for you to use links, text, images, and all the other modern conveniences to promote your sponsor, the googleads are bound to diminish your site. | |
| If you must add dross links to 'related' sites, just choose and add your own links or join a webring. Or if it's the coin you seek, get a sponsor that matches your taste. | |
| Allowing Google (or Overture/Yahoo or whoever) to randomly stuff your pages based on word association is doomed to lead to rivals' text and links splattered about your page. | |
And some readers just plain dislike being force-fed adverts, arguing that 'contextual advertising' is spam. | |
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Keep score of the delegate count, and Slate's campaign field guide.
Slate on the pragmatism of electing electable candidates.