Thursday, October 13, 2005:

The Google ads (lower on the page, for those of you with non-really wide screen resolutions or less than two monitors) are not so much a play for money -- I see my stats, and know full well that I don't get enough hits to make money off of page views. In fact, I know full well that there are five or ten people who will ever notice the AdSense bar, and that's if I point it out, like I'm doing now. And I can name all those people, and their birth signs, and their favorite diet salad dressings -- but a strange experiment of my own design.

For those of you that followed the above sentence, grammatically strained as it was, give yourself a cookie. Or a handjob, if you're lonely.

Most blogs -- well, most blogs worth reading... Okay, popular blogs worth reading -- are themed (moreso than "this shit was all written by me, except the stuff that wasn't, and I just threw that in because it interests me and I need a central repository, and del.icio.us isn't nearly as useful -- fuck you, it's themed ME and that's theme enough for an abusement park, and yes, that's intentional). Thus, the AdSense program should work really well for most of these people, in theory creating a hell of a potential revenue stream. After all, if I'm visiting your site looking for info about the latest tech toys or porn stars or Stephen Hawking memorabilia, and there are some ads to the side that point me to even more of the same, I might follow them.

Me? I get ads for conjunctivitis sites. Three of those, and one for information about cat and dog cataracts.

Happy surfing, y'all. Now get out there and earn me some money.