Great site. Keep doing.

Great. Now i can say thank you!

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 I think The Mouse's original story has a link to Marti's summary of the economics.

In it he suggests he has good stats:

Look at the logs of any web site that runs advertising, and the rate of blocking. A 2001 survey showed a rate of 1%, and it hasn't moved. I once asked for anyone to post a rate of even 5% on any site, no matter how nerdy, and got nothing. Compared to the other problems of running a web site, ad blocking is noise. That offer stands. Show me any site with 5% blocking, even if it's patchouli-scented-dvorak-keyboard-review.com.

I'm amazed that almost no-one uses Ad blockers, Guy. Like you, I feel it's a waste of my time, my bandwidth, my electricity, and my disk space to d/l ads - I didn't ask for them, and as for any economic problems they might cause - well, that's THEIR problem, not mine.

But I mustard mitt that I assumed a healthy proportion of users did use them. Do we have stats?

M

Your piece on advertising

I hadn't thought about it for a PC, althjough now you mention it there is a degree.

BUT on a wireless connection wh=ere you *DO* pay per MB (or if not, you have a relatively small usage limit that gets full...) then it really, really matters.

Or if you are on a 'unlimitted' plan. then that advert is costing the mobile operator a lot of money to transmit.

Grisoft bugging about upgrades and the generally slow performance of AVG 8 free, made me dig out the AVG 7 free install file, which with updates is now working just fine without the nauseating nags. I only changed to 8 because Grisoft said they wouldn't be supporting 7 past mid 2008. Finding the v7 install file can be difficult though, with most links ending with v8

Not so fast, Sherriff...

Went to the race track. No sign of Lewisham Ilton in Docklands, but plenty of Boy Racers...

Is the new Celeron really speedy? Does it need a speed limit? Clamps?

Hello Mouse

I still think you should try out the IMS show. Not relating to mobile is their mistake, and things do change.

see my story for OhmyNews with more detail.

http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/ar...&no=381242&rel_no=1

Guy, I'm here today but not checking the web all that often.

Also here tomorrow afternoon, and in Albion soon after it closes around 4.

Head towards Hammersmith, cross the road at some point.

Nothing mobile here except the prizes. A Wii from IBM for example.

Snooping on your friends?

This little snippet made us giggle...
 

Which day you going, will?

MyNews India have now published my story.

http://www.mynews.in/fullstory.aspx?storyid=1351

First time I used their site so I failed to hide the html. Works ok though. They just got it up quickly. So there could be some feedback for an OMNI version in about ten days time. There could be other stories on related themes.

The mobile aspect is no less interesting because there is not much at the event.

Hello Hunky Mouse

Online Information is next week. And the famous IMS show, which is about tech stuff for librarians etc. I think you should be there because most of the kit assumes a central IT department and somebody should point out that most people have mobile devices and find information from all sorts of sources.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ah78wfp3rm6x_115g4km35

I am working on a Google doc to become a story for OhmyNews. Hope to find an email to invite you.

Anyone else interested please request

Will