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The Froofraw
May. 31st, 2007 09:13 pmThe problem with advertising is that it makes blackmail possible. This is what "warriors for innocence" relies on when it extorts certain behaviors out of a company like six-apart.
Then comes the response - the customers, the content providers, the folks for whose eyeballs the advertisers are actually paying, shoot right back.
In this is a lesson - call it Newton's first law of public relations - for every vested interest there is an equally vested opposite interest.
If your status quo is working for you, don't change it because some self-righteous prigs threaten to say bad things about you. LiveJournal is for communication and expression. It's designed in such a way that if I don't want to see something that squicks me I can easily avoid it.
The problem was one of pure laziness - so much easier to do a query on interests than to sift through public content.
My relationship to LJ has been one of mostly kind disposal. It is not a professional tool for me, but has served me well. I'll stay where my posse is and that's that.
Then comes the response - the customers, the content providers, the folks for whose eyeballs the advertisers are actually paying, shoot right back.
In this is a lesson - call it Newton's first law of public relations - for every vested interest there is an equally vested opposite interest.
If your status quo is working for you, don't change it because some self-righteous prigs threaten to say bad things about you. LiveJournal is for communication and expression. It's designed in such a way that if I don't want to see something that squicks me I can easily avoid it.
The problem was one of pure laziness - so much easier to do a query on interests than to sift through public content.
My relationship to LJ has been one of mostly kind disposal. It is not a professional tool for me, but has served me well. I'll stay where my posse is and that's that.
