{"id":777,"date":"2010-09-23T17:53:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T22:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/?p=777"},"modified":"2010-09-23T17:53:25","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T22:53:25","slug":"conference-ad-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2010\/conference-ad-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference Ad Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this ad in Reader:<\/p>\n<table style=\"width:auto;\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/kMBlmqYzzZutPg_E-E0IKA?feat=embedwebsite\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_wCMCoywAEgc\/TJvXVqaEl9I\/AAAAAAAAQCE\/5Y1QM9Piq24\/s800\/Picture%201.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/imnotjason\/ScreenshotsAndRandomThings?feat=embedwebsite\">Screenshots and random things<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I read a lot of tech blogs, so it&#8217;s not that it isn&#8217;t targeted.  But the thought of 200,000 lines of payment processing code, when PayPal is taking care of all the credit card stuff already, makes me queasy.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone reading my blog who isn&#8217;t a programmer, imagine an ad like this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hungry for a hotdog?  Get access to over 200,000 pounds of hotdog buns.  And learn how to use it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If I was in the market for payment processing, an ad that offered a few really useful, secure APIs would be a lot more enticing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this ad in Reader: From Screenshots and random things I read a lot of tech blogs, so it&#8217;s not that it isn&#8217;t targeted. But the thought of 200,000 lines of payment processing code, when PayPal is taking care of all the credit card stuff already, makes me queasy. For anyone reading my blog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[367,707,708,709,511],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-advertising","tag-conference","tag-fail","tag-paypal","tag-programmers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}