Martin Roell discusses spam once again: Das E-Business Weblog: Aus der Weltsicht eines Spammers.
I like Martin's weblog and read it regularly. Unfortunately he has decided to include Google ads, and these ads are of course spam. My definition of spam is: unsollicited data which is incurring costs to the receiver and improving profits for the sender.
If anyone has a nice logo that says something like "I boycott blogs that carry Google ads" I would be more than happy to place it somewhere on my blog.
Anjo,
three points:
1. How do you know that Martin improves profits? Most likely he is just covering costs of hosting/domain name/etc.
2. I guess there is a difference between email and ads. Email spam gets into your territory (your mailbox), while although you load Martin's blog in your browser it's still his weblog. Following your logic one can say that nice images of a weblog are spam as well :)
3. If you don't want ads may be you should use RSS reader :)
Posted by: Lilia | October 26, 2004 at 11:46 PM
Lilia,
@1. Profits do not have to positive. Perhaps Martin is aiming for a red Ferrari :-).
@2. His weblog? Part of it is filled by Google. Totally of out control by Martin. Some definitions of weblogs start with "a personal journal". Weblogs with Google ads are not personal anymore. And he now has to watch his language as well.
@3. Tried it, could do. Is that the same logic as installing a spam filter? Why is it always me who has to do the work?
Posted by: Anjo | October 27, 2004 at 10:24 PM