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VentureBeat: News sites collapsed as they fetched ads during Michael Jackson traffic surge

  • rkorba · 5 months ago
    Dean -- if you love the idea of Jacko's estate benefiting from the most amazing part of a video game (so your two fortes), maybe cover this (sure you saw it). Breathtaking for us over-40 types...

    http://www.thebeatlesrockband.com/cinematic.php
  • yoyoyo2 · 5 months ago
    Good article, makes a good point about something that has annoyed me for a very long time. Every now or so, you'll come across an ad that doesn't want to load and as a result, the entire web page doesn't load. I shouldn't have to sit and stare at the task bar which says waiting for ad.someting.com, for 3min. just for an ad to load then finally the rest of the content loads. Here's to hoping businesses will start making a better layout to their sites.
  • Chas_M · 5 months ago
    A ridiculous premise....that there is advertising money to be made during news events. News sites should drop all advertising during any traffic surge. They should only "Advertise" their own ability to provide coverage as a top priority. If ad agencies can keep up it'll only hurt the news source anyway.
  • Computer Support Sydney · 5 months ago
    I am much concern to you on this topic. You are right that better web sites are built to load a page and then leave a blank spot where it’s waiting for a third-party image to load.