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May 17th, 2008

Unethical But Legal $10,000 Per Month AdSense Strategy: If money’s what you’re after, quit blogging and start setting up pointless websites.

WordPress Spamming Its Own Bloggers: WordPress may be inserting ads into blogs hosted there.

Meet Crissy, The High Priestess of Coupon Clippers: One great thing about a slowing economy is more mainstream articles like this one, about extreme thrift.

Are Social Sites Like Digg Even Useful Anymore? Eric checks out the top stories on Digg, Reddit, Techmeme, and Memorandum. I’d say Digg and Reddit have shifted from “useful” to “entertaining”.

Win Some Indiana Jones Related Stuff At Screen Rant: Yep the new movie is coming out really soon. I hope it doesn’t suck.

Nirvana In Bloom Unmixed: Tunequest finds a cool Nirvana documentary where producer Butch Vig talks about the making of the song In Bloom. I think we’re at the point (nearly two decades years later) where Nirvana is unquestionably a band for the ages. After all, that’s why they are in Rock Band and mentioned in Definitely Maybe.

Managing Robert Scoble: A tip along the lines of Driving Miss Daisy, Meet Joe Black, and Desperately Seeking Susan. Kidding.

Search the Web From the Dock: Quick Mac Tip. Highlight text, drag it to Safari in the Dock, and Safari will launch and run a Google Search on the text.

The End Of The Internet Is At Hand: Steven introduces us to LOLscobles and the world is changed forever – for the worse.

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  • That's a great description / dynamic, succinctly stated, about Digg's and Reddit's transition. Will ponder some more on that topic.... cheers, EB
  • I can't help but think that that wacky Adsense scheme isn't all the practical. The income from Adsense would have to be great that the cost of running the Adwords campaign to bring traffic to the site. Not every visitor who comes to the site is going to click an ad (a 25% CTR would be phenomenal). Presumes such a generous CTR, the Adsense ads would have to bring in at least 4X the Adwords cost per click just to break even.

    Besides (not that it seems to stop anyone inclined to do it), the Adsense TOS strictly prohibit developing sites for the sole purpose of gaining Adsense income.
  • Jason, thanks for the shout out. I like the idea of Scoble as Susan -- but I could've lived without the LOLScobles...
  • There was also Scoble as Cylon that I found funny, too.
  • Yeah I'm not sure about that Adsense scheme - very impractical. Either I don't understand it... or you pay £5 a click in the hope that someone will click a advert, and that advert will pay out more than they paid??

    Strange....
  • Mike
    They do insert ads into WordPress.com blogs, but very infrequently. I can't tell if I've even seen one, ever, because I've got an ad blocker filtering every site I visit, anyway. :)

    As for the "possibly related posts" feature, it's more to keep people browsing other WP blogs. I don't really see the harm, especially if you're using WordPress.com instead of your own hosted install. But - it's easily disabled...see the comments on that post. The tradeoff is that if you disable it, your blog won't appear in other people's "possibly related posts" section.
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