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Neville Hobson
Personal blog · nevillehobson.combusinesscareer
Neville Hobson's personal blog at nevillehobson.com covers business and career. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog in discussions of Adblock Plus and whether advertising can fund the internet, including ads in book publishing. The comment here only cites it and does not assess the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
> and the entire book publishing industry apparently exist in a cognitive blind spot Books have tried it, and ebooks may well have ads at some point. Luckily, the experiment for print books failed. I wonder how you'd react if someone approached you with a deal to mention a product X times in a book? (I imagine it would be a colourful and robust response!) I ask because Fay Wheldon did this for Bvlgari. http://www.ko…
Comment linking /2010/08/22/are-ads-in-books-such-a-bad-idea/
on “Adblock Plus: the tiny plugin threatening the internet's business model”Submitted Don't be like the pointy-haired boss as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Influence rank: the shape of recruitment to come as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to make your business card a smart card | NevilleHobson.com as a story · 1 points
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