Thursday, January 11, 2018

Because it's GOOD for you!






But it gets more interesting even than that!








  1. This is entirely beside the point, but I really like the term, "click farm", to describe a helluva lot of stuff you find online. If you invented the term, Bravo and congratulations. If you found it and passed it on, thank you for sharing it with us.

    With best regards,


    1. I did not, alas, but I may be responsible for retasking it under a slightly new meaning?

      In 2003 there was a musical made in San Francisco entitled "Goin' Dot Com" about the rise and fall of the fictional dot-com The conceit was that they would rent puppies to men to help the men pick up women. But then the concept metastasized and they started building a PORTAL thing for a LIFESTYLE and then they needed customers to click ads. This leads to a surprisingly peppy musical number with the chorus "well build a click farm in Mex-i-co!" as they plan to hire cheap labor to click links! (This is a thing firms actually did, by the way, in these modern times they use robot armies of hacked computers to do the same thing).

      So, initially "click farm" meant a sweat-shop of people hired to click links. I am using here, obviously, to mean a web site built to attract clicks and attempt to those clicks in to money.