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Today I've searched some info on gson and found this blog post which as I use uBlock to block popups (like medium popups which I hate), I've noticed this text instead of image (almost all Medium-hosted blogs uses some strange full-screen images which usually consume first full-height page scroll, or more):
"This image has nothing to do with the article, but Medium recommended to add a picture ¯\_(ツ)_/¯".

Hey. Stop. If this has nothing to do with your article, why the hell did you add it? I don't care about my bandwidth, but it still consumes screen space (even blocked - it's blank space) and it's noise as author just sincerely wrote.

This shall not be the modern web. Yet Medium is a profitable company! I now still use Blogger which shares founder with Medium. But Blogger was and is not that bad! Just to give some clue of how much noise is on the first page of a regular Medium-based blog here's a screenshot (hint: everything is a noise!):
UPD: typos, formatting.

Labels: blog, blogger, internet, marketing, medium, noise, web

Sony released new 48Mpix image sensor which costs ~$29. Just a reminder for myself on how marketing works (as the price of device differs in magnitudes depending on a number of sensor pixels). Of course that's the bus and the remaining image processing which differs, but still.

Labels: marketing, photo, photography, sensor

This is a small observation about mobile books.
Seems that the the not all geeks who has PDA use the advnced ebook readers or file formats (such as fb2 or pdf) - they use most simple and natural format for books: TXT :-) Maybe this is not common, but this is very natural and simple.
PS This is a single observation that does not pretend to be a representative or to emphasize a trend.

Labels: books, geeks, marketing, mobile