UPDATE#4: Meanwhile downstairs at the Beverly Hilton, the party goes on. Presented without commentary, here's the live feed from that party: [www.grammy.com]
I'll be doing the following: Vodka Jell-O molds* Pumpernickel bread stuffed with eggplant, roasted red peppers, goat cheese and basil* Buffalo chicken meatloaf" Chili (with cornbread*) Chocolate chiffon cake"
Season two is great and the payoffs in the Christmas Special are amazing. This smells less of a review and more of a "counterpoint to popular view in attempt for attention". How one could wait to watch it on a weekly basis is mind-boggling though. Finding it on the web and watching it all in a weekend is ideal. (Granted not this weekend as the weather out is splendid.)
True, I'm not fond of mediocre things, and mediocre things are what need the most advertising to sell them. This creates a different user experience for me than it does for people the "like" Wal-Mart. The IBT article is useful in pointing that out, but it also shows that they sell $4.2b in ads in a year. What math makes Facebook worth twenty times its revenue?
I just refreshed the home page five times to see what ads were being served to me. One was a Facebook ad, one was something called "Involver", one was from a "produce energy at home" thing that looked like a scam, one was classes at some online university, one was for a discount on NY Times online subscriptions, one was for a television show that I would never watch, one was to raise money for the Democratic party, and one was for a small women's clothing thing. (I'm a guy.)
Multiple low-budget ads, none of which interested me in the slightest, so again I ask: How does it make money?
This has been going on for years, no? Even my little sites over the years have received such notices, granted not in the dollar amounts you would receive. I wish you'd not jumped the gun and learned what link coding they used. Then you could uncover who is participating.
(Also, that "fashion blogger" Lindsay Calla "Maxxinista" girl? LOOK INTO HER!)
But The South is uneducated, less industial, and both resource and monetarily poor, so how could they ever possible beat The North? It's an impossible notion.