That might be their prediction, but I don't see that happening from a content-provider's perspective. I know that on my sites
(at least one of my sites gets 2M impressions/month, no small potatoes), I would never subject my users to that. Neither would
Slashdot, Wired, Freshmeat, Salon, Macintouch, or any other sites in this vein, I daresay.
Actually, Salon has recently started popping up ad windows between pages. There were quite sneaky about it - when they started a few months ago, you go maybe one for every 20 page transitions, and now it seems like 50% of the time when you click a link you get a popup. I hate to admit it, but their content is usually good enough that I'm willing to put up with it.
We've suceeded in recruiting a couple of people in the last few months but it really does seem difficult to find people with any real level of knowledge. Many of those that have been good have had job offers from several places and have accepted other jobs before we even manage to make them an offer.
Then tell your HR people to get on the freaking ball and speed things up a little. One of the most frustrating aspects of working in IT is dealing with HR departments that haven't the slightest concept of 'internet time'. If I send out a batch of resumes, and I get a pretty good offer within two weeks, and a GREAT offer in a month and a half, the great offer won't matter because I'm going to have already taken the 'pretty good' one. HR depts. everywhere need to realize that techies are generally NOT patient people and don't tolerate inefficiency and bureaucracy.
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That might be their prediction, but I don't see that happening from a content-provider's perspective. I know that on my sites (at least one of my sites gets 2M impressions/month, no small potatoes), I would never subject my users to that. Neither would Slashdot, Wired, Freshmeat, Salon, Macintouch, or any other sites in this vein, I daresay.
Actually, Salon has recently started popping up ad windows between pages. There were quite sneaky about it - when they started a few months ago, you go maybe one for every 20 page transitions, and now it seems like 50% of the time when you click a link you get a popup. I hate to admit it, but their content is usually good enough that I'm willing to put up with it.
Then tell your HR people to get on the freaking ball and speed things up a little. One of the most frustrating aspects of working in IT is dealing with HR departments that haven't the slightest concept of 'internet time'. If I send out a batch of resumes, and I get a pretty good offer within two weeks, and a GREAT offer in a month and a half, the great offer won't matter because I'm going to have already taken the 'pretty good' one. HR depts. everywhere need to realize that techies are generally NOT patient people and don't tolerate inefficiency and bureaucracy.