Clicks, views and the real effect of display ads

Do display ads really work? If so, how can you know that they work, and how can you know much of an impact they have? There are studies that show lots of interesting things about display ads. For one thing, most people don’t click on them, but the ad still affects behavior. For example, a …

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How small and cheap can a USB drive get?

I was thinking about declining ad revenues today, and it got me wondering how a print publication could make a better connection between the printed page and the online world. Getting somebody to type in a URL isn’t that hard, but it’s also not that sexy or exciting. How long will it be, do you …

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