Oh, Snap!

And yes, that expression only reached my corner of geekdom last week. Anyway, I think it fits with CNet's buzz out loud podcast from Friday. In that episode, the hosts talked at length about a study recently performed by Google about its ad feeds. The concensus was that as long as the ads where useful (hehe), relevant, and not intrusive, that it was okay to have, say, a small banner ad. This in response to recent legal wrangling about the legality of ad blocking software. Yeah. Seriously, there are those that want to get it legislated that we have to see thier ads. At the end of the podcast, a caller points out that the podcast has an ad right in the middle for Earthlink, an American ISP. This ad has sat in the podcast, the exact same ad, for months if not over a year. How's that for intrusive, not to mention not relevant. If you can steam the podcast you clearly already have a decent internet connection. Oops, logic alert!