Coincidentally I see a fresh news item about the author's guild making a deal with google to allow copyrighted works to be more available, when financed by... ads, or subscription.
In short the ad hyenas are hovering around reading material now, pecking away till the industry drops to its knees and they can devour and destroy it like they did with TV. At least that's how I tend to view it.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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If it means no spam in my newspapers, I'll stick with the slow-refresh eInk technology, thank you.
Yeah showing off spam as one of the uses of animations capability was not exactly the smartest idea.
They could have just as easily shown something useful animating like a mechanical or engineering diagram with gears or something like that.
If it is subsidized by ad revenue to be cheaper, I will hack it later to block the ads...
Hm, I think the content itself will end up hacked, so it can be censored/modified and the advertising may become a bit harder to notice
Coincidentally I see a fresh news item about the author's guild making a deal with google to allow copyrighted works to be more available, when financed by... ads, or subscription.
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/10/28/google-finally-wins-book-deal
In short the ad hyenas are hovering around reading material now, pecking away till the industry drops to its knees and they can devour and destroy it like they did with TV.
At least that's how I tend to view it.