I accidentally have discovered a company doing exactly what Bitacle did in mid-to-late 2006. It is scraping people’s RSS feeds from their blogs and mirroring the content in its entirety. Then they wrap lots of Google Adsense ads around it. So they are making money off of my work, and the work of others. The […]
Archive of posts filed under the Technology category.
Contextual Rollover Ads Suck
I’m sure you’ve seen them, those double underlined links from Kontera ContentLink, Vibrant Media, Snap. You rollover the link with your mouse, even accidentally, and you get small pop-up window showing you some advertising. I just found a site who has changed the link to a more regular looking single underline. And the word that […]
Blogosphere News is in Beta
Yet another Digg-style, social networking site has been released, Blogosphere News as a beta. It’s under the management of Splashpress Media. It’s a good thing it’s in beta, it is still very unpolished. Dead links to the advertise page. And Mermberships (sic) are free. No contact form to reach a webmaster or designer or intern […]
Thoughts on the Project Wonderful ad system
I first stumbled across Project Wonderful in December 2006. Project Wonderful is a system that allows ads to be bought and sold as an auction, highest bidder gets the ad, and it changes in real time, so you can have an ad on a site in minutes. It started out as a way for publishers […]
Should I Move All of My Site’s Content into WordPress?
Right now PlanetMike.com is made up of several different technologies: WordPress, a lot of shtml pages (server side includes), a few php pages, and lots of photo galleries created with iPhoto and Gallerie. After the recent Google PageRank update, I’m thinking about basically starting over with the entire site. I think I want to move […]
Google Pagerank 6 to 4! and 0 to 3 or 4!
Wow, my Google PageRank for the PlanetMike.com home page has dropped to 4 from 6, down from 7 a year ago. Speculation elsewhere on the web says that Google is penalizing people for using Text-Link-Ads. Well, if that’s the cause, hmmm, fine I guess. Up until this month, I made much more money from Text-Link-Ads […]
Verizon Billing Sucks II
Last month, Verizon screwed up my billing when I tried to change to a less expensive for the same features calling plan. The rep promised me that it would be all fixed and straightened out in my October statement. Guess what? The October statement is still screwed up. They still have me for the Triple […]
My iMac died
Well, hopefully it is only a heart attack. It was fine yesterday, went to turn it on this morning. Nothing. I read these pages at Apple.com: iMac G5: Troubleshooting when your computer won’t turn on iMac G5: Loose power cord could cause power loss iMac G5 Repair Extension Program for Video and Power Issues And […]
Watching Your Web Server
I have often wished I could have a real-time visual indicator of what my web server is doing. I never really got past simply using a tail command piped into a grep command so I could see interesting things. But Erlend Simonsen came up with a very cool program called glTail. It’s a Ruby script […]
Problems at Google?
Is Google having some kind of problem with their servers? I tried to do some maps with Maps.Google.com, and the images that come back never quite fill in completely. I end up seeing 4 or 5 of the 9 large squares, and the browser’s status window says “waiting for mt#.google.com” The number has been 1 […]