You’ll recall the Million Dollar Homepage, the buy-a-pixel-for-a-dollar site that actually managed to raise a million dollars from astute marketing gurus looking for an exciting and original way to gain exposure hapless buffoons with more money than sense? You’re probably also aware that there have been various rip-offs since then that haven’t done quite as well.
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I use Ad-Block Plus. I have done since I first heard of it, a couple of years ago. I think it’s brilliant. I think ads on the Internet are annoying and intrusive and that they fundamentally don’t work — I either don’t look at them, or I want them out of my face, or I resent the bandwidth they’re sucking up. The I came across a great paper today called Vernacular Web 2, which is about two things in particular: The golden age of the ‘Welcome to my web page’ sites: the ones with the starry backgrounds, midi music on autoplay and animated gifs. These expressions of folk art were reviled by designers and internet intelligentsia By complete coincidence, I came across two new visualisation tools in my morning reading today. The first is TouchGraph, a Java application that creates a graph showing the relationships between any web address and the rest of the Web. It does this by grabbing the list of related sites from Google – the same list you’d get by |             | |||
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