{"id":169,"date":"2001-03-23T06:09:41","date_gmt":"2001-03-23T11:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=169"},"modified":"2001-03-23T06:09:41","modified_gmt":"2001-03-23T11:09:41","slug":"like-ray-ee-ain-on-your-wedding-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2001\/03\/23\/like-ray-ee-ain-on-your-wedding-day\/","title":{"rendered":"like ray-ee-ain on your wedding day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>fellow canuck alanis morissette said it ever so well: <i><b><font color=\"red\">isn&#8217;t it ironic? <\/font><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>so here&#8217;s the lowdown.  i blog this rant about HailStorm, Passport, and targeted marketing, see.  the most illustrious and worthy Dave links to me.  i&#8217;ve got an img ref to my own site in my footer here, so I get log hits.  of course, when Dave links to ya, hits abound. <\/p>\n<p>so i&#8217;m looking through these hits and whaddo i see but a visit from this one particular domain with a neato odd name based on a pretty obscure word.  it so happens that this obscure word popped into a conversation on tuesday, so i had visited this very site.  i take a look at it again just for interest and i see it&#8217;s home to a couple of developers, one who seems to be expert at cross-browser DHTML.<\/p>\n<p>hey, says i, this guy would probably be interested in having a look at my open-source javascript library for cross-browser remote scripting. so i sends him this email, all pleasant-like, inviting him to have a boo at my doins.<\/p>\n<p>then it hits me, like a tunna brix.  i&#8217;ve just mined my own logs, correlated a hit to a user&#8217;s personal tastes, and sent him a targeted advertisement.<\/p>\n<p>talk about ironic.  i&#8217;ve been assimilated and i didn&#8217;t even know it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>fellow canuck alanis morissette said it ever so well: isn&#8217;t it ironic? so here&#8217;s the lowdown. i blog this rant about HailStorm, Passport, and targeted marketing, see. the most illustrious and worthy Dave links to me. i&#8217;ve got an img ref to my own site in my footer here, so I get log hits. of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}