On one of the GC ad channels, in the past 7 days, I have over 5,000 clicks reported but less than $4 earned. It works out to about $0.0006 per click! I think the earnings are correct, but the clicks count is way too high.
Archive for February, 2005
We had a little spamming incident yesterday and today. Someone posted meaningless jibberish on all forums, including an obscene image. It took some work to clean up, but I think I’m better having had the experience. For one thing, I’ve now installed (and used) a phpBB mod that allows me to delete all of a user’s posts with a click. The question I want to ask is: Why?
I need to organize my life.. let’s see.
I spent about 2 hours (4-6) cleaning up the mess some people made on GC.
After performing the upgrade on the QuikSolar blog, I was convinced the upgrade is painless enough to be done on my biggest and most trafficked (yes that’s a word) blog: this one. I’ll be monitoring things to see how comments and search engine ranks go. I’ll be really disappointed if there are any negative repercussions, but it’ll be for the greater good: I’ll report the findings to the people at WordPress.
These new ads at GC will apply only to Guests. Not only will it help to monetize traffic from them, it may also push them to register since registered (and logged in) users don’t get the ads.
Do you want an invite to Gmail, Google’s free email service? If you do, visit the Gmail forum at Google Community.
P.S. If you appreciate this and you have a website, please link back to my site from yours. Thanks!
The text on my monitor looks sharper, crisper than ever..
Here’s a little something I’ll start doing with my blog. As recommended by an eBook I just purchased, I’ll start keeping an AS journal.
Try this link. You can put your own text on T-Mobile’s site. Perhaps you can even get it to run arbitrary code.
… according to Microsoft.
Key points for learning leetspeek
• Numbers are often used as letters. The term “leet” could be written as “1337,” with “1″ replacing the letter L, “3″ posing as a backwards letter E, and “7″ resembling the letter T. “0″ (zero) will typically replace the letter “O.”
• Characters of similar appearance can be used to replace the letters they resemble. For example, “5″ or even “$” can replace the letter S. Applying this style, the word “leetspeek” can be written as “133t5p33k” or even “!337$p34k,” with “4″ replacing the letter A.
• Letters can be substituted for other letters that may sound alike. Using “Z” for a final letter S, and “X” for words ending in the letters C or K is common. For example, leetspeekers might refer to their computer “5×1llz” (skills).
• Rules of grammar are rarely obeyed. Many leetspeekers will capitalize every letter except for vowels (LiKe THiS) and otherwise reject conventional English style and grammar.
• Mistakes are often uncorrected. Common typing misspellings (or typos) such as “teh” instead of “the” are left uncorrected and may be adopted to replace the correct spelling.
• Non-alphanumeric characters may be combined to form letters. For example, using slashes to create “//” can substitute for the letter M, and two pipes combined with a hyphen to form “|-|” is often used in place of the letter H. Thus, the word “ham” could be written as “|-|4//.”
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