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Archive for September, 2008
A Sincere Plea – PBA Website Total Fail
Sep 8th
Now that a worthy TV partner has finally snagged the broadcast rights to the Philippine Basketball Association, I can only hope and pray that the PBA finds the decency to overhaul their pathetic excuse for a website. How bad is it? Anytime you litter the website of Asia’s longest running pay-for-play league with Adsense, you know there is something wrong. More crap here and here. It is that bad.
Give the site to Solar Entertainment? The BTV site also needs a lot of work, but at least it doesn’t look like it was designed on Microsoft Word. In fairness to their capabilities, aside from a few articles by some notable people in Solar Sports, it’s obvious that the site’s main function is to provide programming schedules only.
Judging from their coverage of the PBA draft, I am very optimistic that it’s only a matter of time before they do a People’s elbow on the league’s official website.
Online Advertising — Where do you draw the line?
Sep 1st
As one of my former bosses used to say, “There’s nothing impossible on the Internet. All you need are the right people and enough resources.” As proven by Nokia in their current Pinoyexchange ad, they obviously have a lot of both.
In today’s world of Friendster Facebook pages, Blogspot diaries, and Multiply accounts, at what point do you say no to an advertiser?
If this particular execution was being carried out by a personal blog, I would understand. But for Pinoyexchange to allow their site to be defaced by a single advertiser? I don’t know how much exactly Nokia paid for this, but c’mon, I’ve always thought Pinoyexchange was better (and definitely bigger) than that.
While Internet advertising is still in its infancy in the Philippines, I’ll make it a point to do my part (through this blog) in ridding the online space of this already vicious cycle. Expect me to blow the whistle in future posts.