Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-11-2009

[andrewducker]

• Dave Gorman on 118 800
  Well worth a read.
  (tags: funny privacy)
• How Not to Advertise on the Internet
  Oh. Dear. Lord. A perfect example of the race to the bottom...
  (tags: advertising internet EpicFail)
• Thought-experiment mashups
  Including Newcomb's Cat, Pascal's Dilemma and The Chinese Demon
  (tags: funny philosophy mashup)

Comments

[broin.livejournal.com]

Isn't it more 'How Exactly To Advertise On The Internet'?

[simont]

Why thank you :-)

(On another note, in a purely literal sense, it isn't exactly the bottom they're racing to there...)

[blackmanxy.livejournal.com]

I laughed when I saw that was about Civony. Those ads pop up on RPGnet all the time and have become the subject of a great deal of complaining and mockery. Though I hadn't seen the last one yet. Probably just as well that RPGnet is blocked at my work now; that last one is definitely not SFW.

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

What the Evony/Civony lot got wrong right from the start (going by the adverts) was that their game was just for boys. (That it's a Civ clone and not a RPG we'll ignore for now.) The second and third adverts might've saved them, except for the wording. Bodice-rippers have been a female market for yonks and so the female imagery's no particular turn-off (until advert 4), - it's just that the wording, aimed at 'My Lord', excludes females from the invite.

To make it clear, this also means I disagree with Coding Horror that the first advert was ok - it wasn't either. The thinking from the start is all so very pubescent boys - as if girls don't have fantasies of ruling their own worlds too.