Patrick O’Keefe

Over at Inside Adsense (the official AdSense blog), they’ve posted some tips for optimizing your AdSense ads on your communities. Nothing too new to any of us who have been doing it for very long, but still, it’s nice to see them write something focused to forums. Lately, I have been pondering the side bar ad. Anyone tried it? How did it do? DId it look alright? I tried placing ads below the first posts and performance hasn’t been good - simply not worth having ads there. I’m trying Chitika there now on my two largest sites. Nothing too great to report just yet.

When I get some time, I plan to move some things around. Maybe place Chitika ads below AdSense ads on pages where it looks good (mainly where I have 468×60 banners as skyscrapers would just take up too much space in that). Also, I’m planning to move link units around as I got some code over at phpBBHacks.com (see the Chitika ads there?) that allows me to make it so that ads will only be displayed on certain pages and I can put them in overall header. Previously, I couldn’t do that because it would display them on all pages, including pages that Google doesn’t want them on (sign up pages, etc.). So, I’m hoping that’ll result in improved performance.

Via Darren Rowse.

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This seems like a pretty good deal?

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Do you feel that Mo should win the MVP or the Cy Young? Do you have a website? You can show your support. Read more at MarianoRivera.com.

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Check out The World Is Not Flat. It’s a neat site (cool, detailed look). Lee LeFever and his wife are going on a year long international… jaunt… and are going to be documenting their trip. They’re also looking for people (like you) to post their travel experiences. Find out more at Common Craft.

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Because of the gushing of my friend Jeremy and Darren Rowse, I have decided to try Chitika. I have given them a few spots on SportsForums.net, KarateForums.com and phpBBHacks.com. If they work well, I may expand that. We shall see.

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I just wanted to hand out a big congrats to my friend Brandon and his wife Tracy who have now had baby number two! Welcome to the world.

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I just got done reading this article. Give it a read. The question here… do you want the internet being controlled by the United Nations? As someone who has been a user of the Internet for about a decade, as someone whose entire business and livelihood/future livelihood is online… I don’t.

For whatever you might think about the United States or our President, the internet does run well. It’s an open medium and with that, comes problems. It brings inappropriate, hateful content online and it brings idiots to our websites. It’s not perfect and it’s not going to be. But, when you think of the flipside - of what the opposite would be - there really is no other way that I would prefer. It’s a small concession for the openness that we enjoy in this medium. In fact, it is a vital part of that openness. The fact is - the way that the United States has set the Internet up is great. Anyone with a credit card (or a PayPal account, even) can pay $10 and get a domain name and pay a certain fee every month for hosting - or even sign up for a free hosting account - and put their message online. They can talk about their favorite sports team, they can bash the President’s policies, they can do whatever they like as long as it isn’t illegal (libelous, stalking, etc.). And that’s cool. That’s the way it should be. And the U.S. deserves credit for inventing the Internet and allowing it to become what it has.

In my own personal experiences… as a teenager, I was able to buy domain names, set up websites, join ad networks and make money. How cool is/was that? Freaking awesome. If you have a great idea, if you work hard - you can be successful online. You can start a business online. You don’t need to be rich to start. It’s beautiful. I hope that people don’t judge this issue on hatred of us, but on what has actually happened with the internet and how easy it is to use and start using. I, for one, don’t want Cuba having a hand how the internet is managed. I don’t want China having a hand in how the internet is managed. I don’t want Iran having a hand in how the internet is managed. Hindsight is always 20/20 and everyone is an expert, but the internet has not been managed poorly. The fact that you are reading this message right now is testament to that.

Via Cox & Forkum via Free2Innovate.net.

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Check out Stewie Live. My favorites:

Work
Write
Sing
Sad
Nose
Cheer

Edit: Type is another one (via Keith).

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