Blog Network Watch reports on the setup of the SexNotWork blog network, and that Paul Scrivens, and others from 9rules, are no longer invovled in the network.
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Spotted at Hollywood Tuna:
a Google Video Ad. One small problem though, at that’s the buffering rate. If you are going to expect people to click on and view video ads, you are going to want them to pretty much work from the moment the play button is clicked. The buffering time on this ad was roughly 10-15 seconds. For the casual surfer (I was waiting to see what it was like) this time is way, way to long to view an ad. If they are going to work (and I’m not yet convinced they are) they need to be quick, super quick to load and run.
Convicted Australian drug possessor Michelle Leslie has at last fessed up to being a fraud: wearing a burqa whilst in Indonesia was all part of a ploy to garner sympathy, and the whole “I’m a muslim girl” thing was basically a crock of sh*t.
Leslie’s excuse: she feared being raped in prison so so put on a burqa, which apparently is Indonesian for chastity belt.
It get’s better. She still claims she is a muslim, but not a practicing muslim….we’ll I’ll never…I always though wearing underwear on stage was some new modern form of Islam 🙂
And you wonder why Australian’s get such a bad name in Indonesia. Drug smugglers who deny smuggling drugs despite the fact pretty much the whole family is in jail on drugs charges (Shappelle Corby), and now pretending to be a Muslim for sympathy….
(in parts via The Spin Starts Here and News.com.au)
Tags: Michelle Leslie
At long last, it looks like Google might be (at least a little bit) cracking down on made for Adsense sites, in this case those who get their traffic using Adwords.
From Threadwatch:
Google is launching a spider named AdsBot to monitor AdWords landing page quality.
Sometime in the coming weeks, a new AdsBot crawler will be grabbing all landing pages independently of AdSense, Googlebot or other Google spiders. Can you still block being spidered? Yes. But if you do so, Google AdWords will consider you a “non-participating advertiser” in the review process. As a result, you’ll take a ding on your overall AdWords quality score
Great stuff from Google. Now if they’d only start cracking down on some of the spam sites using Google we could all sleep that little bit easier as well 🙂
Tags: adsense
Darren reports at Problogger that Google’s AdSense has changed default Ads to Borderless Ads. Wise thinking from the Google team.
Tags: adsense
Darren writes over at Problogger about the experience of the owner of a blog by the title of idolbloglive with the hosting company Surpass Hosting, who cut the blog off with no warning because of a spike in traffic, and who now demand $110 a month to reinstate the site and give the blogger access to his files again.
Surpass claimed 500 visitors to the site in an hour crashed their server, and hence they had no choice in the matter. Of course, it’s rubbish, but that’s the line.
Unfortunately, this response is typical of an industry that is full of crooks and scam artists who care nothing about your online business or hobby, and who are only interested in making a quick buck.
Im my time online I’d say I’ve probably gone through roughly about 10 web hosts, and say 7 in the last 2-3 years, mostly when I was writing The Blog Herald.
Nearly all of my experiences can be rated between bad and criminal.
The shared hosting scam
Great news for all bloggers, with a deal announced by AP with Technorati that will see links to blogs citing AP stories provided to all newspapers that subscribe to AP.
From an AP story at Macon.com:
Technorati will search blogs for postings that include links to AP stories. Links to those postings will be available along with the original AP stories on 440 member Web sites served by AP Hosted News, a service that uses AP servers to display AP content on member sites. There also will be a box featuring the “Top Five Most Blogged About” AP stories.
I’m not sure whether all 440 member web sites will take up the option, but it’s still going to provide more opportunities for bloggers to gain traffic when reporting on AP stories. Congrats to David and the rest of the team at Technorati.
Update: more details at the Technorati blog here, as well as an example page from the Buffalo News.
Tags: AP, Technorati
A search engine that knows exactly what you are looking for, that can understand the question you are asking even better than you do, and find exactly the right information for you, instantly – that was the future predicted by Google yesterday.
I though we were already getting artificial intelligence, be it poor artificial intelligence with all those wonderful made for Google Adsense sites 🙂
Tags: google
Darren has started a group writing project over at Problogger titled “Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers“. Now, I’m not the most effective blogger in the world, but I know how to be effective, it’s just sometimes I’m easily distracted (or as she who must be obeyed would say…nearly always distracted). Sometimes I wonder if I was a child today whether I might suffer from ADHD somewhat, only because focusing over long periods of time can be difficult, but with such an amazing resource such as the internet and blogs, lets face it, its easy to be distracted. (try visiting Wikipedia, if I end up there looking for something sometimes I can spend an hour there looking at other interesting stuff….because its interesting 🙂 ).
The key of course to being a highly effective blogger is discipline, and discipline required structure. Structure of course leads to habbit, and habbit is a natural tool that can make anyone more effective if its focused in the right direction.
After my week off, and having moved house and laid floors before that (a huge time out and distraction in itself) I’ve come back with a zeal to get back into the habbits that will make me a more effective blogger.
These are the steps I’d recommend in becoming a highly effective blogger.
Valleywag reports SixAparts Live Journal team is in battle with breat feeding advocates over images on LJ blogs showing breast feeding.
I’m male, so I’m not even going to go near the whole breat feeding in public issue, but I’d share this advice: banning pictures of a totally legal act undertaken by mothers and their children in public, particularly when thise pics are in context, doesn’t bide well for the LJ team, or SixApart for that matter. Surely there would be far worse content elsewhere on LJ or even TypePad for that matter, that would warrant action than pictures of breat feeding, and I’d think from a PR perspective that SA doesn’t really need a fight with the breast feeding nazis that are likely to start attacking the company once this news spreads.
Tags: SixApart, Live Journal, breast feeding
