22 setembro 2003

VITAMEDIAS

Second sight: So you think sex is still the biggest draw on the web? Then you have never watched a bunch of webloggers get orgasmically excited over banner advertisments.
Yes, banner ads. Those mundane, aggravating bars of blather that blink, flash and annoyingly try to sell you a product associated with the web page content.
Now, thanks to ever more exacting algorithms that can pair a bland entry in someone's gushing weblog with some product you don't want, bloggers have rushed into the arms of Mammon.
Or, at least, they hope to. Bloggers always hope to rush into the arms of Mammon, despite all the signs that Mammon is not interested in even a small cuddle. Bloggers are convinced that at any moment, the rest of the world - besides the 2% of web users that analysts Jupiter say now look at weblogs - will eagerly pay for the stuff they write.