- Obnoxious Advertisements
- Flash websites
- stupid holiday memes
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against online advertisements. I understand the value of free information and entertainment. But why you have to choke my bandwidth and interrupt my focus with some animated, noisy (before they got realistic and muted them by default) cartoons trying to get me interested in some completely irrelevant to me product? Lightweight adds can be just as elegant and communicate a product in a way that doesn't piss me off. If you piss me off I'm not going to be interested in your product.
Flash websites are the bane of the world wide web. Sure you can do some pretty cool effects and animations and page switching and all but if I wanted to play a game I probably wouldn't be coming to your website to find your information. I'd play a game. Hollywood has found that design companies who use flash are really good at marketing for their movies, and I can't say that's a completely bad thing, but if the bandwidth you use to communicate what you are presenting is almost the size of the bandwidth it takes to watch the trailer for your movie then please forgive me for finding your content on YouTube.
Holiday memes...
Recently though there is a huge brouhaha in geekdom about the choice of a particular fruit-logo'd company not giving Flash any love especially in regard to it's latest innovation of porn-on-the-go devices that has all the hipsters raving about how we've arrived.
Most people that know my technical, geeky side know my feelings toward the maker of the Mac. As such I have had to consider where I really stand on this issue. Not that where I stand really matters in the greater scope of things, but I needed to know.
I'll let you know. To be continued...
Until next time
Les
