Posts Tagged ‘advertising’

END CITY HALL’S NEWSPAPER SUBSIDY

March 29, 2008

OR GIVE IT TO THE DISTRICT!
Missing from P-T reporter Wendy Thomas Russell’s otherwise fine overview of the low-profile battle over city advertising revenue is this: there shouldn’t be any revenue.
“With newspaper revenue falling nationwide, . . . state-mandated ads and notices are in higher demand than ever before,” she wrote today. “In fact, they’ve become [...]

WEB ALGORITHMS PRODUCE FUN SMASH-UPS

November 8, 2007

Too, too logical
Yesterday, I posted something about a CalTrans crew working (or rather not working) on Seventh Street. Next to that post, Google’s algorithms popped up ads for companies selling traffic cones, signs and for a car rental agency. The logic of the algorithm is something less than logical: it’s not really likely, is it, [...]

 

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