For all that Engadget purports to be: Tech Savvy, In the Know, Geeky, entrenched in the industry, etc. etc. Their image gallery really blows. Don't know what I'm talking about? Check out their latest user contributed image gallery for Macbook Pro Mock-ups
You'd think a really tech savvy blog wouldn't have an image gallery that goes to a new page every time you click on an image. I guess technically to display a new advertisement at the top of the page, you'd need to go to a new page. But I'm sure someone versed in javascript could setup a nice gallery that changes the inner image and also displays a new ad at the top.
This last thought came to me only after I saw a ton of whitespace around the images and then realized that adblock was blocking all those wonderful money making ads that make the internet continue to grow. Adblock is a wonderful firefox plugin for people like me who are more interested in the content of a page than whether I should act now and start my free IRS tax return at TaxAct while viewing images of a laptop. Engadget, if only you were as savvy as the items you report on you would tag your images and show related ads based on those tags. Then again, that would probably defeat the purpose of said tax ad in the first place. Click on the image to the left to see a lightboxe'd image. 'nuff said.
This last thought came to me only after I saw a ton of whitespace around the images and then realized that adblock was blocking all those wonderful money making ads that make the internet continue to grow. Adblock is a wonderful firefox plugin for people like me who are more interested in the content of a page than whether I should act now and start my free IRS tax return at TaxAct while viewing images of a laptop. Engadget, if only you were as savvy as the items you report on you would tag your images and show related ads based on those tags. Then again, that would probably defeat the purpose of said tax ad in the first place. Click on the image to the left to see a lightboxe'd image. 'nuff said.
