Facebook Ads Quirk

Just a short update about a weird issue I ran into when I was creating some Facebook ads.

Facebook allows you to advertise to a number of different sources but for whatever reason they take features away from you if you're advertising to other Facebook pages. One of those annoying features is that Facebook takes over the title of your ad if you advertise for a fan page or an event.This can be annoying as the title is the only text in your ad that's presented in a big eye-catching bold font. My revelation was that you can subvert the normal title stealing behaviour by choosing to link to an "External URL" for the event/fan page but ONLY if your URL is not HTTPS.

Updates and Namedrops

We're getting into Doubleclick for Advertisers at work. I find it endlessly amusing that they refer to it as DFA constantly which reminds me of other things. Doubleclick is a monster but in a good way. AdWords was one thing but this seems to take all the nice conveniences of the Google Display Network and does away with them in favour of supporting everything who doesn't want to completely comply to Google's rules. I think I've got the basics down but I'm still expecting to have to figure some more things out.

I'm also working on CSS again. A new design for this site is on the way as a trial by fire for what I'm learning. I think I've got a lot of the basics down, but now I'm finding the idiosyncracies to be a far bigger issue than the concepts and methods. The CSS community seems to be pretty good at categorizing their hacks so that's been a smoother process then I was expecting. Now I just need to find the time to get the practice in.

Lots of other stuff going on but the only important thing right now is that my recent fling with programming means I'm addicted to IDM again. My good friend Heather directed me towards The Glitch Mob, Of Porcelain, and edIT. I've tangented off of that into some more ambient tracks though Machine Drum, Tim Hecker and some good old Boards of Canada.