Tag Archives: online

On advertising / from a working library

By Steve Lambert | Published: October 12, 2010

Let’s pretend, for a moment, that the reading experience on the web is dependent upon an advertising economy, that there is no other model for supporting reading save the ever more noisome sale of cellulite creams and cell phones, that our ingenuity has been so fully drained we cannot envision any other scenario by which [...]

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Support Unlogo, a Corporate Identity Media Filter

By Steve Lambert | Published: September 6, 2010

Friend of the AAA and occasional contributor to this site, Jeff Crouse, has a new project he’s trying to get some support for.  Unlogo is a web service that eliminates logos and other corporate signage from your personal media. From Jeff: On a practical level, it takes back your personal media from the corporations and [...]

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New on Add-Art: Net Art 1.0

By Steve Lambert | Published: February 17, 2009

Add-Art is the Firefox addon that replaces ads on the internet with rotating curated art images. Developed by myself and several others surrounding Eyebeam over the past 2 years, it’s free, will speed up your browsing, and features contemporary art that changes every 2 weeks.  We just released a new version, so install it now! [...]

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Online Ad/Promo/Content Map

By Steve Lambert | Published: January 12, 2009

Ironically, from an article titled 10 things that won’t survive the recession via “The Triumph of Bullshit” on Tumblr

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Add-Art is now Firefox 3 compatible!

By Steve Lambert | Published: September 21, 2008

Great news; Add-Art, the Firefox browser extension that replaces ads with art is now Firefox 3 compatible. The extension blocks advertising and replaces it with art images that change every two weeks. The art comes from contemporary artists and curators – read a review from Rhizome. If you’ve been waiting for Add-Art to work in [...]

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Product Placement “oppertunity” from adamkluger@inbox.com

By jeff | Published: August 22, 2008

One of my lifelong dreams has been to turn on top 40 radio and hear some pop tartlet subtly dropping product placements for my fake sweatshop products into their newest hot single. So you can imagine how excited I was when I read this email yesterday from Mr. Kluger, wherein he offered me an oppertunity [...]

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Dangerous Business

By Anne Elizabeth Moore | Published: August 18, 2008

Now, I like your freedom of speech as much as the next gal—technically more, probably—but i’m not about to get all up in arms because some ad industry blog has been receiving death threats for discussing a campaign that links government-backed violence, human rights violations, the Olympic Games, and the Chinese government. Especially when journalists, [...]

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I’m not going to link to it

By Michael Mandiberg | Published: August 11, 2008

I’m not going to link to it, because if I do, they win. There is a mock-scandalous advertisement out there for cologne, or underwear, (or cologne-and-underwear) that has some actress showing some nipple. They submitted it for TV, got rejected, and are now all mock-righteous. OF COURSE IT WAS GOING TO BE REJECTED! That was [...]

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IllegalBillboards.org

By Steve Lambert | Published: July 21, 2008

IllegalBillboards.org is a new effort launched by the Anti-Advertising Agency with IllegalSigns.ca to help organize and support the removal of illegal billboards in New York (we’ll get to the rest of the country soon I hope!). IllegalBillboards.org consists of a forum and blog where you can learn how to investigate an illegal sign and track [...]

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YouTube: Monetizing Alleged Copyright Violators—And Skirting the Law

By Anne Elizabeth Moore | Published: June 27, 2008

My friend Franklin Lopez—videomaker extraordinaire—recently received a bizarre notice in his inbox regarding a show he produced reusing some Universal Music Group (UMG) imagery. The note stated in part, “Your video is still live because UMG has authorized the use of this content on YouTube. As long as UMG has a claim on your video, [...]

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Saving the Planet one Facebook Ad at a Time

By Michael Mandiberg | Published: June 5, 2008

Several people have sent me invitations to this Facebook application called (Lil) Green Patch. The invitation says “Here is a Jenny Appleseed plant for your (Lil) Green Patch. Could you help me by sending a plant back? Together we can fight Global Warming!” So a little research later, I have learned that this game is [...]

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Intro to Add-Art

By Steve Lambert | Published: May 27, 2008

This video will give you a brief intro to Add-Art and demonstrate how to install the add-on to your Firefox browser. If you have any additional questions, check out the forums – http://forum.add-art.org. Intro video Remix Contest on http://fffff.at – $100 prize. Introduction to Add-Art from Steve Lambert on Vimeo.

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New Project: Add-Art; replaces online ads with art

By Steve Lambert | Published: May 23, 2008

Add-Art is a free Firefox add-on which replaces advertising on websites with curated art images. Created with the support of Eyebeam, Rhizome, Add-Art releases new art shows every two weeks and strives to feature contemporary artists and curators. The plugin works alongside AdBlock Plus, which blocks online ads, and simply replaces that blank space with [...]

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Branded Event Radicalizes Mommy Bloggers

By Anne Elizabeth Moore | Published: April 5, 2008

An exclusive branded vacation/soiree intended for some mommy bloggers—but not others—succeeded this week in raising some questions about transparency, PR, and free shit. Not, surely, the kind of buzz the fancy party was intended to start. The party was thrown by market giant Johnson & Johnson. The location was DisneyLand, owned by the Disney Company, [...]

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Trojan Horse

By Anne Elizabeth Moore | Published: March 29, 2008

Recently back from Cambodia, welcome back to the AAA, Anne Elizabeth Moore! The great Facebook Ad Debate of November 2007 centered entirely on whether it would work—meaning, would people who did not buy certain products before alter their spending patterns now?—and whether or not it would change advertising forever—meaning, are online social advertising networks the [...]

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