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Instagram Adpot: #count6 numbers decreasing

cogdog on November 7, 2018

Mystery numbers. It was a Lost thing, not lost on data fueled advertising. It was back in March 2016 I started noticing first the presence, than the patterned appearance of what Instagram calls “sponsored”, a fancy name for the kind of advertising that can be mistaken for content. I had a #count6 thing going, and […]

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Instagrump: Share Give Away Photos You Cannot Find, Search, or License

cogdog on March 28, 2016

In the affirming spirit of the US elections, let’s talk about winning. By the metrics of internet success, one might say that Instagram pretty much is winning the photo sharing corner of the internet. Gulp their own sheer numbers: Instagram should be the poster child for what Mike Caulfield characterizes as StreamMode: I’ve been talking […]