Month: October 2001

Originally in Wall Street Journal (one of those times I wish for a subscription), but found in Web Techniques: Daily
Jason Calacanis, editor and CEO of recently suspended Silicon Alley Reporter magazine

“The biggest mistake we’ve ever made, as an industry, is the banner ad. It is ineffective and was created by what is best described as the Wired Magazine hippie crowd. These folks were interested in preserving the user experience, which is, of course, not what advertising is about. Good advertising is first and foremost about breaking the user experience in order to get a sponsor’s message across.”

Robin Miller, editor in chief of the Open Source Development Network,

“Text, punctuated with a few photos and simple graphics, is likely to be the most efficient method of delivering our style of tech-oriented news and information for the next few decades, at least. Meanwhile, inflicting whirling, blinking, jumping ads on people trying to read static text online is a great way to make them dislike you.”

Deep down I really believe the way for everyone to win, consumers, content creators, and advertisers, is for Robin’s vision to dominate. Though I’m going to expect Jason’s opinions to dominate.

Originally in Wall Street Journal (one of those times I wish for a subscription), but found in Web Techniques: Daily
Jason Calacanis, editor and CEO of recently suspended Silicon Alley Reporter magazine

“The biggest mistake we’ve ever made, as an industry, is the banner ad. It is ineffective and was created by what is best described as the Wired Magazine hippie crowd. These folks were interested in preserving the user experience, which is, of course, not what advertising is about. Good advertising is first and foremost about breaking the user experience in order to get a sponsor’s message across.”

Robin Miller, editor in chief of the Open Source Development Network,

“Text, punctuated with a few photos and simple graphics, is likely to be the most efficient method of delivering our style of tech-oriented news and information for the next few decades, at least. Meanwhile, inflicting whirling, blinking, jumping ads on people trying to read static text online is a great way to make them dislike you.”

Deep down I really believe the way for everyone to win, consumers, content creators, and advertisers, is for Robin’s vision to dominate. Though I’m going to expect Jason’s opinions to dominate.

This book will attempt to capture the engineering wisdom and philosophy of the Unix community as it’s applied today — not merely as it has been written down in the past, but as a living “special transmission, outside the scriptures” passed from guru to guru. Accordingly, the book doesn’t focus so much on “what” as on “why”, showing the connection between Unix philosophy and practice through case studies in widely available open-source software

Lots of good gems in there.

This book will attempt to capture the engineering wisdom and philosophy of the Unix community as it’s applied today — not merely as it has been written down in the past, but as a living “special transmission, outside the scriptures” passed from guru to guru. Accordingly, the book doesn’t focus so much on “what” as on “why”, showing the connection between Unix philosophy and practice through case studies in widely available open-source software

Lots of good gems in there.

What Bush might have said if he had some real kahonas.

What Bush might have said if he had some real kahonas.