I'd not have read your website, seen your art, gone through your talks and sniffed around your association. (All above board, purely academic / aesthetic interest)
My mind would be poorer, so: yes.
Ublock No Script Ghostery (just make sure to disable the client-server notifications, they sell them on)
And, of course, never use social media platforms unless you're creating spoofs. Linkedin without anything but business emails attached, perhaps.
p.s.
You've seen millions of Coke ads on the internet, you just don't process them as such. It's why I mentioned Film Branding. (Native / Viral / Organic branding).
]]>The W3C is working on Web micropayment standards, but we have something that works already. You could easily implement a Bitcoin micropaywall for this site where I have to pay, say $0.1 per day, to read your posts.
Related issue: when I buy your next book I don't want to pay $15 to your publishers. I want to pay $2 to you (I guess that's more than you get now).
]]>As always, Diamond Geezer, a keen observer of E London life, makes a point.
]]>Oh, and tens of billions of micropayment transactions per diem is probably an underestimate, remembering there are a lot of scraper 'bots out there. And what happens if the micropayment system has an outage for a day? It's also an obvious target for hostile attack, hosting hundreds of millions of dollars/Euros of cash money transactions every day. Diverting even 0.1% of that flow into Someone Else's pocket would be overwhelmingly tempting for a lot of people (see Bitcoin stories redux).
]]>If handling N transactions requires O(N^p) infrastructure, p > 1, then you're in trouble.
]]>Of course it might be that the modern generation don't care about any sort of quality; the audience I am seeing for poorly translated Japanese/ Chinese to English light novels of usually hackneyed plot and wish fulfilment aims seems surprisingly large.
Nevertheless, suggesting to a more old time author that they should be like these people is a bit insulting.
]]>There's promises that there's an "impartial" group that will decide who gets in and what ads are shown...yeah it stinks. Luckily it can be turned off for now.
Maybe this gives us a glimpse the future? A constant bidding war between people and advertisers. A future internet user will be happily browsing when their adblock informs them that a company just paid £2 for rights to advertise on your browser today. Want to pay £2.01 to prevent this?
]]>(cribbed from a letter to the editor, N Y Times print ed, Sat 3 Oct)
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