Remember the news a few weeks ago about “The Million Dollar Homepage” — brainchild of Alex Tew, a student in Nottingham? He sold tiny ads at $1 per pixel and filled a million pixels, and therefore his wallet.
The bandwagon-jumping has started: The Homepage4Science has hundreds of thousands of pixels available for “Science Products and Services”, “Academic Societies”, “Academic Publishers” and “Science Jobs” for $1 each, and free pixels for individual scientists. Capitalism at its weirdest.
Subscribe to my feed.