Eric on targetted advertising
<eric> you know how sometimes there are pop-up advertisements that know where you are logged on from in the world? » like "Meet hot girls in San Diego" » which now for me say "Meet hot girls in Tokyo" » So if you log in from Vatican City, does it say "Meet barely legal girls in Vatican City TONIGHT!" ?
November 5th, 2006 at 11:48 pm
I pasted this URL in #bs (irc.mozilla.org) and Vardyr replied:
Why does this post have no title (and yet have a correct post slug)?
November 6th, 2006 at 8:13 pm
Because I don’t like titling small quote posts that should stand on their own merits. Why telegraph the punch line too early?
I have a slew of categories whose names start with ! (bang). I modified the template to include the category slugs as classes on the post’s div. And I kludged up a quick plugin to hide bang-categories completely from the front-end. So I can tag posts without cluttering the categories; apply CSS rules per-post; and categorize posts by presentation in addition to content. This is an !ircquote - irc-style quote. I’ve also got !blockquotes farther down.
One of these days I’m going to get some proper CSS to make it all worth existing. It’ll be pret-ty.
November 6th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
It can make you miss a quote if you decide to skip a long post and skim for the next header — the lack of a “title” makes a quote look like part of the previous post. Good to know you’re planning to fix that eventually with CSS.
FWIW, I think the quotes work fine even when preceded by e.g. “Eric on targetted advertising”; I don’t think your titles give away punch lines.
November 7th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
As Jesse suggests, a non-spoiler title is fine, though I agree it’s sometimes too much effort to come up with the headline.
As for missing one of the entries in the blog, it isn’t life-threatening…