The Adman Cometh

Matt just said it for me.  Although my view might be slightly more um, nuanced.  I don't actually want anyone to die.  Just to go live in a cave.

Mind you, there is a bit of a dilemma.  Advertising has made the ubiquitous web possible while at the same time, advertising has hopelessly corrupted the ubiquitous web.  We increasingly rely on the web as a primary source of information, yet we cannot trust what we find on the web to be free of public relations and advertisers' lies and distortions.

My small contribution to the war against viral advertising is not to buy or wear anything with a Swoosh on it.  Even if that might mean buying second-best. 

Oh, and having a blog that no one reads so no advertiser will ever approach me.  Or spam commenter for that matter.

And not watching (much) commercial tv or listening to (much) commercial radio.

Mind you, if every one started making ads for free, that might undermine the whole industry sufficiently to eventually kill it.