The apparent consensus around this topic from comments on twitter was that an occasional in-context tweet was not objectionable. What is ‘occasional’ was not defined. So let’s say its one per month.

Tris, you follow 5410 people. Assume we all jump on the ad.ly bandwagon sooner or later and allow ad.ly one shot per month. You’d then receive -/+180 ads per day if evenly spread over a month. Would that have you filtering out anything with ad.ly in it regardless of tweeter? If so then the whole purpose is defeated?

There’s an old saying that “Pioneers are the ones with arrows”. In tech this was transmuted in to being good to be a “Fast Follower”. By inference, if you’d filter out all ads at that rate, then only those who get on now stand much chance of making money as ad.ly would have to come up with something different if their ads are never read.

As a general point, not many people challenge assertions of social media goodness (at least on the marketing aspect). Is the end result that it becomes one giant MLM scheme? Will marketing and advertising actually destroy the social web, as we enjoy it today, sometime in the future? if everyone does it, then does it lose value?

I’m not bright enough to make any prediction here but I sense that the quest for ‘recommendation’ driven by paying people to do so is not actually going to be any more effective, ultimately, than older forms of advertising.

What do you all think? Am I barking up the wrong tree?

The apparent consensus around this topic from comments on twitter was that an occasional in-context tweet was not objectionable. What is ‘occasional’ was not defined. So let’s say its one per month.

Tris, you follow 5410 people. Assume we all jump on the ad.ly bandwagon sooner or later and allow ad.ly one shot per month. You’d then receive -/+180 ads per day if evenly spread over a month. Would that have you filtering out anything with ad.ly in it regardless of tweeter? If so then the whole purpose is defeated?

There’s an old saying that “Pioneers are the ones with arrows”. In tech this was transmuted in to being good to be a “Fast Follower”. By inference, if you’d filter out all ads at that rate, then only those who get on now stand much chance of making money as ad.ly would have to come up with something different if their ads are never read.

As a general point, not many people challenge assertions of social media goodness (at least on the marketing aspect). Is the end result that it becomes one giant MLM scheme? Will marketing and advertising actually destroy the social web, as we enjoy it today, sometime in the future? if everyone does it, then does it lose value?

I’m not bright enough to make any prediction here but I sense that the quest for ‘recommendation’ driven by paying people to do so is not actually going to be any more effective, ultimately, than older forms of advertising.

What do you all think? Am I barking up the wrong tree?

For Twitter, I’d hope because the ads have to be short, they will be less intrusive.

You probably aren’t under-valuing your blog, it’s just that advertisers haven’t figured out how much these ads really should cost.

For Twitter, I’d hope because the ads have to be short, they will be less intrusive.

You probably aren’t under-valuing your blog, it’s just that advertisers haven’t figured out how much these ads really should cost.

And I guess that’s good for my readers, as I won’t be selling-out-per-post, and still only writing about things my readers value.

And I guess that’s good for my readers, as I won’t be selling-out-per-post, and still only writing about things my readers value.