I am putting advertisements on this blog. It is more out of curiosity rather than any real source of income. It also gives me a chance to think about related design and usability tweaks. Feel free to complain if you find them obstrusive or simply unbearable.


August 28th, 2006 at 7:22 pm
[...] It will be a horror if the ad-supported model gets successful and the history repeats itself. Not only will it drive down the reading productivity but also purge the reading instinct. I hope this becomes a critical point which determines whether this gets successful or not. Mind you, I am not against advertising, I have started putting ads on this blog since last couple of days. I just hope that they are only supported by ads and don’t fed by them. Freeload Press should kind of pledge for this, only then will the skepticism reduce and the benefit availed. Last thing that we want to happen in academics is to start making our textbooks look like Yellow Pages! ads advertisements textbooks web Liked it? Tell othersThese icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]