February 23, 2006

quality online content experiences are best!

Dennis Howlett does the great job of explaining just why traditional, paid media just-doesn't-get-it:

“We don’t allow self promotion - It’s not in our commercial interests to send people away from our site.”
Of course not. It's in your interests to get advertisers to pay you lots of money by offering the consumer a quality online content experience. Lucky you.

Posted by hugh macleod at February 23, 2006 4:11 PM | TrackBack
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Hugh -
I love the Gapingvoid. It's a daily destination for me. Thanks to you, I'm hip to to the Cluetrain and all that markets as conversation and disruption goodness. And the cartoons are genius. Which brings me to my question: I know you are enamored with your new tablet pc (impressive work plugging it, by the way) and cranking out volume -- but do you feel that your work might be losing some of it's potency now that it's no longer ink on paper? I've noticed quite a few new cartoons, but I don't find them to be as compelling as of late...
Nick

Posted by: Nick Van Amburg at February 23, 2006 4:45 PM

Can't please everybody, Nick...

Posted by: Hugh MacLeod at February 23, 2006 4:53 PM

"can't please everybody, Nick..."

Not if you want to absolutely delight others, because I was going to say just the opposite. I'm loving these new ones, and it feels like you just got a big surge of inspiration from your new toy. I also feel lucky that we get to be part of your new explorations. But you've put up too many good ones to even know where to start commenting, so I just wanted to say thank you ; )

Posted by: Kathy Sierra at February 23, 2006 7:11 PM

I agree with Kathy, I started coming to this site when a friend reccommended it and I love the new cartoons.

Posted by: Kyle at February 23, 2006 7:58 PM