Content, the new optional extra

Trying to reach what I'm assured is an article by Cory Doctorow about the limitations of Facebook on InformationWeek, I gamely waded through a couple of interstitial ads, waited patiently for the ad-tracking, Intellitext, ad-serving, AdWords and the ten banners (of various sizes) that grace the page to load, and then discovered that the one thing not included on this page was the content of the article. Refresh? Same. There's some fascinating prioritisation going on in some places right now.

Update: LostRemote experiences a similar but not quite identical problem with huge ads and flashing ads that draw the eye away from the content.

Comments

[Amy Gahran]

Thanks, Seamus. I *thought* that seemed like a weird glitch. That's why when I linkblogged this story on Contentious.com, I linked to the printer-friendly version.

Just posted about this missing-content issue on Poynter's E-Media Tidbits:

http://snipurl.com/1ufg4

- Amy Gahran