16 February 2008
Spottt
You might have noticed a new addition to the sidebar on the right of this page. After finding out about Spottt through another blog I decided to sign up. There have been a few services of this type springing up over the past few weeks; here's how Spottt works:
"If you have a website, blog, or MySpace profile, you can use Spottt to get people to your page without paying for advertising. Spottts are 125 x 125 pixel graphics that link from your web page to another, and vice-versa. For every two times a Spottt is shown on your site, your Spottt will appear once on another site."
Quite a useful thing to be involved in, it's fairly simple to implement and you can view stats on things like how many times your ad has been shown and how many times it's been clicked on. Also, adds a nice dynamic to your page I think.
Using the BBC iPlayer service I recently watched a documentary called Factory: Manchester from Joy Division to Happy Mondays. It's a film about the independent record label Factory Records which began in Manchester in the late 1970s, releasing music from acts such as Joy Division and New Order. I was familiar with what happened with Factory and the people involved as I'd seen the film 24 Hour Party People, a retelling of the whole story starring Steve Coogan as Tony Wilson, the guy behind Factory. And it is a really great story, very interesting and entertaining. It's no longer available through BBC iPlayer, but if you're interested in the history of British music then definitely check out either of these films.
Also, the Beets t-shirt I mentioned here came in the post the other day. My t-shirt addiction continues...
"If you have a website, blog, or MySpace profile, you can use Spottt to get people to your page without paying for advertising. Spottts are 125 x 125 pixel graphics that link from your web page to another, and vice-versa. For every two times a Spottt is shown on your site, your Spottt will appear once on another site."
Quite a useful thing to be involved in, it's fairly simple to implement and you can view stats on things like how many times your ad has been shown and how many times it's been clicked on. Also, adds a nice dynamic to your page I think.
Using the BBC iPlayer service I recently watched a documentary called Factory: Manchester from Joy Division to Happy Mondays. It's a film about the independent record label Factory Records which began in Manchester in the late 1970s, releasing music from acts such as Joy Division and New Order. I was familiar with what happened with Factory and the people involved as I'd seen the film 24 Hour Party People, a retelling of the whole story starring Steve Coogan as Tony Wilson, the guy behind Factory. And it is a really great story, very interesting and entertaining. It's no longer available through BBC iPlayer, but if you're interested in the history of British music then definitely check out either of these films.
Also, the Beets t-shirt I mentioned here came in the post the other day. My t-shirt addiction continues...
3 Comments:
that spottt thing looks interesting, although it's normally the kind of thing that confuses me and i just ignore: cos it's a bit like webrings, they kinda break the usual way i use the internet. ask jacob nielson, cos i'm not sure how to explain :)
p.s. taht t-shirt totally rules
(it's a shirt of a made-up band in order to be intentionally vague and exclusive.. innit?)
personally I prefer Entrecard, it's way better and sends you tons more traffic
What's Entrecard?
Nice idea using Spottt. I might look into it.
I'll tell you what's a good dynamic blog sidebar addition I came across recently, it's a random-displaying strip of photos from your Flickr. I added it to the site I run, which has a huge photo archive on Flickr so it's a great way of showing people the nature of the archive and how vast it is, and gets them clicking!
Check it out here: www.woodseatsventureunit.com
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