order number 47
It’s been several days since I’ve posted something to the blog, so I thought I would point you to the t-shirt I just ordered online. For a few months I’ve been brewing an obsession with the Apple ][e I had as a child, so, when I spotted that shirt for a mere ten dollars, I didn’t think too hard before I hit “add to cart.”
It’s worth noting that I think this is the first time that I’ve bought something I saw advertised online. I saw an ad on Austinist advertising local design studio Sparrowhead’s ten dollar t-shirt sale, and I thought it was time to pick up a new “cool” t-shirt, so I followed the ad to the site. It does seem like online advertising has improved in the past eighteen months or so. Certainly Google’s AdWords has matured to the point where it delivers ads appropriate to the content it accompanies, but I also think that bloggers and advertisers have figured out how and what to advertise on blogs. Hopefully, online advertising won’t get too good, or I’ll break my budget whenever I go online.
Damn you, McChris…now I’ve had to go up there and get a t-shirt myself. It’s not the computer love design, so don’t worry - we can still go to the prom without having to worry about matching. I was order number 49.
You’re right that online advertising has gotten better. I’m now beholden to a number of retailers that I otherwise never would have run across without some nicely-designed and (more importantly) well-placed banner ad staring back at me.