I posted over at http://mashable.com/2008/07/22/3-ways-to-make-more-money-blogging/ but wanted to expand on the idea there in more detail. The mashable article was linked to http://www.centernetworks.com/online-advertising-interaction which has a few more comments on the same topic: Advertising as monetization for blog content.
The author from centernetworks does a reasonable job of pitching his case - the trend, especially in [...]
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Making money blogging - donation system idea
July 22, 2008
Optimization will become more important in the next few years
July 8, 2008
I was looking at hosting provider mosso.com this morning. No particular reason - just saw an ad and clicked on it to poke around. The pricing seemed reasonable, but because mosso is a ‘cloud computing’ sort of provider, I dug a bit further. You’re charge $100/month for “10,000 compute cycles”. Seemed a bit nebulous, so [...]
Help test a new URL shortening / redirection service
June 28, 2008
What? Another URL redirection service? What’s the point? Well, there’s a couple of points.
1) I hadn’t done one yet, and it looked like a simple yet difficult enough challenge to get me thinking about coding again.
2) I didn’t see anything that offered usage statistics. I tried one that claimed to offer them, but it appeared [...]
Why do browsers still not have file upload progress meters?
June 25, 2008
It’s 2008.
Firefox 3 was just released - years of work, thousands of bugs fixed, new features thrown in. No file upload progress meter.
IE7’s been out for awhile, but I don’t have a copy here handy to test. My memory is telling me it doesn’t have one, or if it does, its very unobtrusive and not [...]
Railo - new life for ColdFusion?
June 23, 2008
I have to admit, I’ve never been in to ColdFusion. I used it on a couple small projects back in the early 2000s (was just brought in to finish/fix existing code), but never really dug it. Not that it was *bad*, but the early versions really smacked of watered-down development. Everything’s a “tag”, so it’s [...]
Randal Schwartz podcast up
June 12, 2008
I had the pleasure of talking with Randal Schwartz about his latest passion - Seaside - over on WebDevRadio.com. Check it out.
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Magento book review found
June 8, 2008
I found a review of my brother’s Magento book earlier today. Starting off with “However, I’m not really the type of person to give accolades unless something is absolutely stellar. As such, this post will primarily be about the shortcomings of the book” I wasn’t particularly surprised that there was more of a focus on [...]
Running .Net code on a JVM?
June 8, 2008
I just stumbled on this article Sunday morning. This snippet sums up the product:
There is a way of marrying the advantages of .NET development with Java deployment. Using Mainsoft for Enterprise Edition (EE), Visual Studio developers can write code in .NET and cross-compile it to Java. Not only code, but pieces of the Framework; Mainsoft [...]
PHP Job Book blog relaunched
June 7, 2008
I relaunched the PHP Job Hunter Handbook blog. After a job move last summer, and the book getting shifted from self-publish to external publisher, I unfortunately let the blog grow stale. I’ve relaunched it today with an explanation about what happened, and some more detail about the progress of the book over the last year.
Also, [...]
IT 2.0 thoughts
June 6, 2008
ReadWriteWeb had a thought-provoking article up today about what the future IT worker would look like. More specifically, what sorts of skills this person would need to have to be successful. Not surprisingly, the recommendation was, in a nutshell, the ability to communicate with other members of the business on their terms. I don’t think [...]
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