Adam Fields (weblog)

A thought occurred to me while thinking about the automatic keyword ad serving problem of avoiding potentially sensitive subjects – it’s probably possible to monitor something like this:

http://del.icio.us/tag/disaster

for related keywords and use those as the starting point for topics to avoid. There’s no reason to try to make this fully automated – let the distributed meat machine work for you.

http://www.cardstacker.com/gallery.html

http://www.14-condoms.co.uk/condom-styles/vegan-approved-condoms.html

It looks like The Incredibles has really fucked things up for the Fantastic Four movie.

http://www.themovieblog.com/archives/2004/12/fantastic_four_gets_script_changes_and_upgrades_its_visual_effects.html

22,000 people dead along the Indian Ocean coast, and all of the animals escaped. I guess this is what happens when you build houses and stuff.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1104305041706B224

A Columbia librarian walked every street in Manhattan between May 2002 and December 2004.

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?050103ta_talk_mcgrath

His website, with lots of pictures, is here:

http://www.newyorkcitywalk.com/

The feedburner rss feed Amazon ad insertion service is serving inappropriate ads.

I believe the Google context-sensitive ad service takes measures to prevent this sort of thing. They all should.

This is a screen capture from my bloglines page (not my blog):

I’ve notified feedburner of this, but I think it’s important to think about the implications in general. If we’re going to start inserting context-sensitive ads all over the place, there ought to be a little sensitivity to, say, the death of more than 75,000 people.

Amazon has added a 1-click donation page for tsunami aid donations. As of the time of this writing, they’ve collected almost $1.6M. If you haven’t given already, please consider it.

http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts/my-pay-page/PX3BEL97U9A4I/