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I've got $1,000 just waiting for a site for the TA Banner AD
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Wellcky
Golden Member
FWIW, the folks over at Toms are in the process of getting their DC teams going, one of them politely complained about our recruiting on their forum.
It seems to me our focus audience has to be targeted at serious computer guys (who are all incredbly cool, good looking and get lots of poontang, just like us 🙂). Some sites get lots of traffic (Cnet, Zdnet, etc.) but there are tons of casual computer users that hit those sites and may not fit our target audience. I'm afraid our $1k wouldn't go far at one of the really high traffic sites.
I'm inclined to think a site like Anand's would be the ideal hunting grounds, most of us (I think) got to DC because we were already at Anand, not the other way around. So we need to find people like us that are not already involved in DC. That would suggest Sharkey, Hardocp, BXBoards, Storage Review, etc. Sites like Voodoo Extreme are great, but may be geared more to gamers. Obviously it is a plus if the site owner is not pushing his own teams and might even help a little (probably not likely for $1k).
My second choice would be overclocking/PC retailers like PCNut, Plycon or something; we already got Compucheap for free, no reason to consider throwing any money at those guys. 😉
This may actually be about the first time a poll may actually be useful, list a bunch of sites by category and give everybody 48 hours or so to vote.
It seems to me our focus audience has to be targeted at serious computer guys (who are all incredbly cool, good looking and get lots of poontang, just like us 🙂). Some sites get lots of traffic (Cnet, Zdnet, etc.) but there are tons of casual computer users that hit those sites and may not fit our target audience. I'm afraid our $1k wouldn't go far at one of the really high traffic sites.
I'm inclined to think a site like Anand's would be the ideal hunting grounds, most of us (I think) got to DC because we were already at Anand, not the other way around. So we need to find people like us that are not already involved in DC. That would suggest Sharkey, Hardocp, BXBoards, Storage Review, etc. Sites like Voodoo Extreme are great, but may be geared more to gamers. Obviously it is a plus if the site owner is not pushing his own teams and might even help a little (probably not likely for $1k).
My second choice would be overclocking/PC retailers like PCNut, Plycon or something; we already got Compucheap for free, no reason to consider throwing any money at those guys. 😉
This may actually be about the first time a poll may actually be useful, list a bunch of sites by category and give everybody 48 hours or so to vote.
JimMc -
You have valid points, and the whole reason behind this discussion is to get it out in front of the team once again, and of course to get on with it. We could have moved ahead without input, but that seems a wee bit unilateral.
Obviously stats junkies would get a kick out of this... (Statistician forums?) - I don't even know if there are any.
Perhaps a way to decide would be to get a sampling of what drew people to distributed computing in the first place - since after all, this is for all projects, not just RC5.
You have valid points, and the whole reason behind this discussion is to get it out in front of the team once again, and of course to get on with it. We could have moved ahead without input, but that seems a wee bit unilateral.
Obviously stats junkies would get a kick out of this... (Statistician forums?) - I don't even know if there are any.
Perhaps a way to decide would be to get a sampling of what drew people to distributed computing in the first place - since after all, this is for all projects, not just RC5.
mechBgon
Super Moderator<br>Elite Member
In my "Favorites" list I have a folder called "Hardware Sites." It contains three entries: Anandtech, Firing Squad, and Sharkyextreme. Based on my own tastes, I would vote for www.sharkyextreme.com.
divide by zero
Golden Member
Hmmm, for casual uses, offices full of them, each with a computer doing nothing more strenuous than Word...
http://www.thedilbertzone.com
Ad rates unknown.
[Edit]
Actually http://www.dilbert.com is a little more targeted.
http://www.thedilbertzone.com
Ad rates unknown.
[Edit]
Actually http://www.dilbert.com is a little more targeted.
A place where tech guys go? Hmmm, other than hardware review sites www.theregister.co.uk is fairly popular and is frequented by some of our target recruitees (not gamers, techie/computer interest guys, not too serious fairly popular site).
Let me ask this for the sake of comparative analysis....
If you have a site you want considered - please check into the price of a banner ad. That will save us alot of time and effort in evaluating it.
Perhaps we'll find there are two $500 ads on different sites we could place?
If you have a site you want considered - please check into the price of a banner ad. That will save us alot of time and effort in evaluating it.
Perhaps we'll find there are two $500 ads on different sites we could place?
Well theregister.co.uk uses a ad company called DoubleClick and these are the ad rates.
I can't quite figure it out, but I think it works out to £28 (Technology - site specific) for 1000 showings. So from $500 (and at todays exchange rate) that could equate to around 12000 showings on that site.
I can't quite figure it out, but I think it works out to £28 (Technology - site specific) for 1000 showings. So from $500 (and at todays exchange rate) that could equate to around 12000 showings on that site.
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