Goodbye Pop-up Ads
It looks like Matt Drudge has done away with pop-up ads altogether on the Drudge Report. I’ve watched for several weeks with multiple browsers and haven’t seen any. He has doubled the number of ads on his page to 4 positions. I’m sure his ad revenue will be just fine and he has happier readers now.
by Lance - 9:47 pm
October 24th, 2005 at 12:01 am
Hurray!
They were poorly implemented, contained trackers, flash, active-X… glad they are gone.
Side note: Sunday night, Oct. 23rd … The Radio show has a guest host and Matt dosen’t promote affiliate stations on his web site as he usually does. I breifly thought he was off air when I heard the guest host AND didn’t see the affiliate links.
October 24th, 2005 at 8:31 am
Liners: 20 million bloggers, and not one has made me a booty call
Best news of the day: No more Drudge pop-ups! Technorati indexes its 20 millionth blog. In two weeks: The 20 millionth blog apologizes for not posting enough. [via the Boing] Nearly 40 Googlefolk blog, and Google Blogoscoped lists them. Which…
October 24th, 2005 at 4:21 pm
As you may have caught, Matt was out last night with laryngitis. He generally adds a link to ALL the affiliates that carry the radio show before the Sunday night show. It seems like he never promotes the radio show when someone’s subbing for him…maybe he should out of courtesy, but it’s likely for the same reason he can’t do the show in the first place (fleeing a hurricane, out of the country, sick).
I didn’t notice too many updates over the weekend, so he’s probably under the weather. I say we send him a crock pot of chicken noodle soup with matzah balls. (With the DrudgeBlog and Drudge Forum URLs clearly labeled on the container, of course.)