BBC Adds up the Ads
October 31, 2006
The British Broadcasting Corporation figures there’s some serious money to be made adding adverts to their web site.
The corporation estimates that it could earn between £48m and £105m annually in advertising revenues, depending on how aggressively the advertising were to be placed.
BBC executives must be rubbing their hands together at the prospect of so much extra income. However, they will have to balance the advertising revenue against the huge protests its UK rivals will undoubtedly make, and against internal opposition.
Here in Canada, CBC.CA had gone for years with no advertising on it’s news pages. That all changed 2 years ago with an aggressive sell of banners above the title and on the right side bar.
Lately those ‘above title’ banners have only occasionally been sold, mostly the inventory is promotional for the fall TV season or CBC’s uninspired 1995-era kids web site.
Sphere: Related ContentEntrance to False Creek
October 30, 2006
Another HDR. The flare on the sun is from the aperture, no cheezy filter applied.
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October 30, 2006
Messing around with HDR images.
This reminds me of those hand-painted prints from the 50’s. I shot this one this afternoon.
Crazy Ass Tourists Take A Dip
October 30, 2006
I was taking some pics in English Bay today when I caught these two in for a dip.
Maybe they’re locals, but in any event, odds are at least one of them is originally from Manitoba. Given that it was cold and windy today (despite the sunshine) I figured they deserved the paparazzi treatment.
They had a photographer with them (on shore) but I couldn’t read the sign from my angle.
Fall in North Vancouver
October 29, 2006
The nights are colder, we’ve bought our Cypress Mountain season passes, and I’ve been into Second Wave three times in four days. Must be fall!
Giant Replica of Balsa Wood Airplane
October 24, 2006
Now this is my idea of a perfectly acceptable way to waste some time. Excerpt from the University of Westminster web site.
Sphere: Related ContentThe exhibition LEARN TO FLY, by Mark Clews, featured a precise full-scale version of the balsa wood rubber band powered airplane of his childhood.
Fifty metres of rubber was wound up and let go at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey on a runway over 6,000 feet long. Like model planes, this art work can be flat-packed and reassembled anywhere in under an hour, ready for flight.
Please Flush After Reading My Feed
October 24, 2006
Steve Rubel’s Micro Persuasion blog has a great list of ways to consume RSS.
I wrote last December about about getting RSS feeds on my PSP, but Rubel’s got the waterfront, and the water closet, covered.
A definate must-read if only for the TP powered RSS reader. Hilarious.
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