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What You See Is Not What You Get

Blogging, Marketing / PR, Misc, Software August 30th, 2005

Seth Godin captured what appears to be “The scary thing about blog ads” on Jeff Jarvis’s blog:

But this is the full picture from Jeff’s site:

Screen clipping taken: 8/30/2005, 7:31 PM

And clicking through reveals the “explicit” act:

“the former Baywatch star and longtime animal advocate’s latest project is “Kentucky Fried Cruelty,” an undercover expos

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Zoli's Blog | August 31st, 2005 at 12:15 pm
The Scary Thing About Ads – part 2.

Seth Godin explains what he meant in his previous post that I cited here. Well, that’s not the only unfortunate ad placement – how about this, from my yahoo home page: No, I am not blaming Yahoo for being insensitive&nbs…
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Zoli's Blog | March 26th, 2007 at 11:00 am
Contextual Advertising Blunders

Here’s another case of contextual advertising producing really, really inappropriate results: I was watching the CNN video about Iran kidnapping British Navy personnel from their boats, when the ad in the bottom slid in: “Life is better with a boat.&…
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