Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Should Nuts and Boalts Sell Out?

Tempting.

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posted by Armen Adzhemyan at 9:45 AM

6 Comments:

Blogger Armen Adzhemyan said...

That's not to say other Blawgs don't write posts about the ads that appear on their site.

12/26/2007 1:49 PM  
Blogger tj said...

I personally approve, and know that many classmates wouldn't even notice a difference. However, there will always be one or two ideologically opposed who will be sure to let you hear about it. I guess the real question is whether you think it'll really detract from the purpose of the site or steer readers elsewhere - probably neither being the case...

12/27/2007 5:38 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think it's a good move. People bitching about the "sellout" will spike your traffic.

12/27/2007 9:26 PM  
Blogger ibz said...

Here's a question about Google advertising, only sort of related to Armen's temptation: If I were to forward a privileged work email to my personal gmail account (e.g. because it might be more convenient to work on it at home that way), knowing that Google's computers "read" the content of my emails in order to put context-sensitive ads on my screen, have I waived the privilege? My instinct is that the answer should be no. But what if Google technicians and programmers sometimes also read the emails as part of the process of fine-tuning the "reading" software? I suppose it makes a difference whether or not I know that to be the case, right? For the time being, I plan to avoid this practice. What do you think?

12/28/2007 1:03 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That. Is. A. FASCINATING. Question. Not being qualified to answer, I lurk with interest.

12/28/2007 1:11 PM  
Blogger ibz said...

Here's a much less interesting potential problem for lawyers using gmail. (Not that I ever read that OTHER legal ethics blog.)

On the subject of Armen's original post, I don't see any problem with it, other than a slight aesthetic preference on my part for ad-free blog reading.

Some commenters (virtually always anonymous) have occasionally expressed the (incorrect, weak-minded) opinion that the blog is somehow the property of the school community. This has usually cropped up when Armen has exercised his power to delete inappropriate comments, etc. If there were ads, I think Armen's control/ownership of the blog would be more obvious, and we would be less likely to hear those comments.

12/29/2007 7:09 AM  

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