a rebuttal on Digiday

debunking those '15 alarming stats' from a month ago -
http://www.digiday.com/publishers/5-unalarming-stats-about-banner-ads/

patent pending

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/04/30/sony-patent-is-hilarious-terrifying/

IAB announces html5 ad spec recommendations

Even though

it is too early to declare a guideline or specification for HTML5 ads

They are just coming short of doing this.
Display ads should have a border, live in an i-frame, be 75-100k including fonts and libraries, etc.

http://www.iab.net/about_the_iab/recent_press_releases/press_release_archive/press_release/pr-050613

Nonsense repeated

http://www.digiday.com/publishers/15-alarming-stats-about-banner-ads/

The Say Media stuff about surviving plane crashes vs clicking is funny, but not real, people!

Dealing with adblockers

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-tactics-dealing-adblock-users-site/

http://antiblock.org/

finally some change! Mobile == desktop

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-blends-desktop-and-mobile-ads-2013-2

I need to start commenting instead of just posting these things, but I'm a little busy today.

issues in digital

http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Blog/The_Top_Ten_Burning_Issues_in_Digital