Archive for 28th of July, 2005
Vanity Publishing
Jul 28th
I found an interesting comment by John at Nonsense Nation, which touches on a topic dear to a few bloggers hearts.
My Adsense income is pretty dismal. It helps with the cost of running a site but it is weak.Someone (not me; I don’t have the time) has to set up something a la Link Exchange for bloggers. They could sell extra impressions on your site for you and cut you a check for part of it.
Advert Wizard used to do this. In the end they were selling adverts for a few cents per thousand impressions. Add in that your cut would be a few per cent of that and you see the problem. I think banner exchanges are a hard market to sell advertising on, especially on blogs which might be themed, but could still have off-the-wall entries for a few days, or unmoderated comments mocking the advertisers – which reminds me of something for next week. AdSense, those Google ads you see on many sites, is in many ways quite brave. (more…)
More on Latour, We Have Never Been Modern
Jul 28th
20041112183044191. Photo by Emile.
This is an image that comes to mind when I read some interdisciplinary articles or books. It’s often done very well, if you examine any of the areas closely it’s sound, but when you put the whole thing together something isn’t quite right.
I’m still working on a paper on the disc of Nebra, where a lot of very clever people working entirely reasonably have put together an odd idea, without making any obvious errors along the way. Rather than being wrong, they’ve simply not been entirely relevant when talking to each other. Latour’s We Have Never Been Modern is sometimes like this, the mathematical ideas are to a fair degree correct, but simply not relevant. This shouldn’t matter. He’s talking about society not maths, but it does because he’s using maths as an analytical tool. Here’s his model of symmetry for instance. (more…)
