ads with soundtracks are anti-usability (was Re: [thelist] meta tag for charset=iso-8859-1)

[evolt@spinhead]

I had to go look up the ad to see who it was. Seemed pertinent to the post.

spinhead


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Crawford" <jcrawford at avencom.com>
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Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: ads with soundtracks are anti-usability (was Re: [thelist] meta
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> Joshua Olson wrote:
> > The very fact that you mentioned the product name, Intel, is proof that
the
> > ad got your attention.  So, I guess it worked.  :)  Though you may be
right,
> > effective ads are not usually subtle for a reason.
>
> It's a fine line between obnoxious and attention-getting. It seems to me
> that thumping bass with tech specs might be a good thing - for AMD.
>
> - Joe <http://artlung.com/>
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