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January 6th, 2009A Conservative Resurgence Plan - Ken Blackwell
January 6th, 2009WeatherVA - Washington County
January 6th, 2009A good holiday season
January 6th, 2009Can We Talk About This?
January 6th, 2009McAuliffe The Jokester?
January 6th, 2009Ah, The Memories
January 6th, 2009On The Exploding National Debt
January 6th, 2009They Figure They Have The Muscle
January 5th, 2009Where’s Al Gore?
January 5th, 2009A Baffling Appointment
January 5th, 2009Europe to Launch IXV in 2012
January 5th, 2009Sharp drops in online advertising predicted
January 5th, 2009Ars Technical has an article that reviews several signals that suggest the boomtown days of online advertising are about to come to an end. The sharp drop in the sales of high end electronics is bringing a related drop in advertising for those devices, but the article suggests the bigger driver in online ads is a maturing of the marketplace, where businesses are finally figuring out just what an online ad is worth with respect to click throughs and sales. Businesses that are not getting results with their online advertising are cutting back, and that drives prices down. The article makes a particularly interesting point about the difference in value between a TV show or a movie and a Web page--the Web page has significantly less value because it occupies the viewers attention for a much shorter period of time and also has many outbound links. A TV show or movie, by contract, has the viewer's attention for a more predictable (and usually longer) period of time. That makes TV and movie ads more valuable.
Rip Van Winkle is awakening
January 5th, 2009I had no intention of sleeping through 2008 when I decided to take a blogging break, but it happened. You get out of the habit of blogging, and time passes. I’m starting to feel like bloggin again. Something different though. Not quite sure what yet. I might even wipe the slate clean and start the site over, I haven’t decided yet.