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Advertising, ethics and editorial freedom

March 25th, 2008 at 9:12 pm » Comments (19)

In a recent blog post, Roopinder Tara included this throw-away comment:
Pure bloggers don’t do advertising, so no worry about advertising pressure — the secret and unstated fear of us all in the trade press.
I respect Roopinder, but this kind of “pure blogger” label irritates me. I have an ad on my blog for geeky T-shirts, [...]



Advertising Oops!

March 2nd, 2008 at 9:49 pm » Comments (2)

I just spotted this image flash up on a banner advertisement on a CAD-related site. At first glance, I thought it was a nasty Autodesk ad promoting Revit (it’s on top, after all) and unkindly suggesting that Bentley software is only fit for disposal.

Then I spotted Bentley logos elsewhere on the ad and worked out [...]



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