Thanks jonathan - the 826 project didn't say anything about it being started by Dave Eggers. You'd think authors would be a little bit more clear about writing that sort of stuff.
I couldn't even get a straight info on whose idea it was that started the Time Travel Mart thing.
I'm (still) trying to get to the bottom of the Defense Australia ad. We run a few ad servers and no one copped to running this ad yet. I haven't seen the ad myself (I'm pretty sure it's geo-targeted and it's only being served to Australian readers).
I don't have control over specific ad inventory, which is why isolating the ad is such a slow-going process. For the record, I don't condone ads that have self-starting audio and I apologize again for your inconvenience.
Re: flashing magenta & yellow, "winner," and 1000000 visitor ad. Before Neatorama grew to its current size, we had little choice but to display bottom-of-the-barrel ads. We don't have this type of ad anymore (save for the annoying hiccups like the Defense Australia ad every once in a great while).
Re: adblock. I'm ambivalent about this. I understand the value to readers who don't want to see ads, but ads are the lifeblood of this blog (and others too, I'm sure).
Re: Freemium, that's a great idea v.dog - though I'm not sure we're at such scale that we can take advantage of the idea. Neatorama remains my hobby blog and probably shows that it's run as such. No big corporation here!
I think you can program in the name of your kid, but then Elmo "takes over" from there ... Must've been some special programming on this particular one.
So a paper cup takes longer than is usually thought to biodegrade? So what? It’s still less time than it takes a styrofoam cup to break down.
I think the point is paper practically don't degrade in most landfill environment. A paper cup will still be a paper cup after buried in a landfill for decades... then what's the point of it being biodegradable at all?
The point of the Eco Joe article is that you have to consider the total impact of paper cup vs. styrofoam cup (from production energy cost to quantity used to finally, biodegradability).
I couldn't even get a straight info on whose idea it was that started the Time Travel Mart thing.
I'm (still) trying to get to the bottom of the Defense Australia ad. We run a few ad servers and no one copped to running this ad yet. I haven't seen the ad myself (I'm pretty sure it's geo-targeted and it's only being served to Australian readers).
I don't have control over specific ad inventory, which is why isolating the ad is such a slow-going process. For the record, I don't condone ads that have self-starting audio and I apologize again for your inconvenience.
Re: flashing magenta & yellow, "winner," and 1000000 visitor ad. Before Neatorama grew to its current size, we had little choice but to display bottom-of-the-barrel ads. We don't have this type of ad anymore (save for the annoying hiccups like the Defense Australia ad every once in a great while).
Re: adblock. I'm ambivalent about this. I understand the value to readers who don't want to see ads, but ads are the lifeblood of this blog (and others too, I'm sure).
Re: Freemium, that's a great idea v.dog - though I'm not sure we're at such scale that we can take advantage of the idea. Neatorama remains my hobby blog and probably shows that it's run as such. No big corporation here!
I think the point is paper practically don't degrade in most landfill environment. A paper cup will still be a paper cup after buried in a landfill for decades... then what's the point of it being biodegradable at all?
The point of the Eco Joe article is that you have to consider the total impact of paper cup vs. styrofoam cup (from production energy cost to quantity used to finally, biodegradability).