The Atlantic has posted an interesting article on internet advertising calling it The Internet's Original Sin. Written by Ethan Zuckerman, who worked at Tripod during the birth of online ads, the article does a good job identifying the issues with relying on ads as the primary source of funding behind the internet. Ethan also speculates on some possible solutions to the problem—which mostly lean toward subscriptions as funding.
(Score: 2) by Ryuugami on Tuesday August 19 2014, @05:13AM
Ah, the moneylenders in the temple, the time when Jesus went all (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ on their sorry asses.
Not to mention the fish-and-wine-duplicating incident. It's quite possible that FWAI (Fish and Wine Association of Israel) are the ones who pushed Romans to crucify him, I say!
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