A cool blog utility
You'll notice the wiggling peel in the upper right hand corner. I bought a copy of that peel away ad/notice a week ago and have been having fun with it. I put it on my wife's blog, so it would lead back to our family home page. She loves it. I just noticed that the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler is using it to promote their favored Presidential candidate.
The latest version allows mutlitple ads and links so you can rotate through different links or specifiy which ones go one which pages. They can also go on either side of the page (I have the old version that can only go on the left).
What I like about it is that it is tucked away nicely up in a corner. It actually has become the new corner banner. I'm pretty sure that it can be hosted by one site and placed on others so you could allow others to use your code to place a peel away corner to link back to whatever project you are wanting to push. Bloggers after all are activists, and while many may use these for advertising, getting any message out through effective means is the strong point of this combination of javascript and flash.
Get one copy and put it on all your sites, linking to whatever project or site you want to draw attention to. And with the new version you can put two on each site.
Posted by Danny Carlton at September 19, 2007 2:15 PM
How can something be 250% off? Wouldn't that mean I get a refund upon purchase?
The original price is 250% of the actual sale price. So if something selling for $1 which originally cost $2.50 would be 250% off. That sounds better than 60% off. Anyone not aware that advertisers use convenient hyperbole whenever possible, should go back to Gilligan's Island where they've obviously been for the past few decades.
"Currently 250% of standard price"
If standard price = $1
Then $1 * 250% = $2.50
$1 - $2.50 = -$1.50
If standard price =$2.50
Then $2.50 * 250% = $6.25
$2.50 -$6.25 = -$3.75
Yes 250% sounds much better than 60% off and probably really helps move product, but it's wrong. If they really wanted to use 250% in their advertising scheme than the banner should say "The standard price is 250% more". Are you ever wrong? I mean in this case this is simple mathematic principle. I typically use the above formula to figure out the cost of a product when a store advertises 20% off and it works pretty well. Is there some special rule I am forgetting to employ when its on your website or above 100% off or something.
The hyperbole that the advertiser is said to be employing is actually false advertising. Generally we as consumers accept hyperbole in the form of say "Its unbreakable", not advertising a factually untruthful price. That's pretty much lying. I am not sure how market principles are employed on the island, but I am aware of consumer standards and lying is not acceptable in capitalism, because transparency is vital in a functioning capitalist society.
Wonderful job with sticking to the inane point, reader comment, call reader ignorant in some manner formula it seems to work out well for you, perhaps though you should realize that your readers are only commenting because you are way off base on something. Your positive to negative comment ratio is a little strange... seems like if you were as intelligent as you believe yourself to be you would have amassed a couple of followers by now.