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jeff_duntemann

AdSense One Year In

Feb 17, 2007 10:53

I started using AdSense ads in my various Web pages here on Feb. 16, 2006. It's been a year now, and a closer look has been instructive. (See my February 22, 2006 entry for a summary of my thoughts going in.)

My original idea was to see if a writer can make money on the ad model. ( Read more... )

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not about the income, but the gallery anonymous February 17 2007, 19:12:54 UTC

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Re: not about the income, but the gallery jeff_duntemann February 19 2007, 16:36:32 UTC

Heh! Great minds think alike. I have a small shear and use it a lot with PC stock, of which I have much, though in larger chunks. Much of what I do I carve out of PC stock using my Dremel tool, though I don't do much broadband stuff like video.

What are the RF characteristics of hot glue? I've got a glue gun here and have wondered if the glue would be too lossy to use at VHF.

Re: not about the income, but the gallery anonymous February 19 2007, 17:05:45 UTC

The RF characteristics of hot glue? No idea. But bear in mind there are different sorts of adhesive available, so one of them may be OK.

From my years in television broadcasting, I have learned to avoid RF -- a guy could get hurt! Besides, I prefer my voltages low, and not oscillating ;)

I do recall (with pain) the experience I had with back-EMF on a 120VDC relay coil, however! A suppression diode could not be used, as this was in a switcher using something called "hysteresis switching". As I understood it, the idea was that in a one of n crosspoint selection, the matrix was set up so that when you selected a new coil, all coils were initially disconnected, but the field collapse time prevented the selected relay from dropping out, or some such voodoo. In logic circuits, I'd call it a miracle race condition. ;)

Then there was the time I got 800VDC on my fingertip while exploring a color vidicon camera...

So I try to stick with logic voltages.

Bill Meyer

No AddSense in the RSS view? anonymous February 19 2007, 11:29:42 UTC

Jeff,

FWIW, I'm reading your blog through the RSS feed using Thunderbird News & Blog's facility, and I just see the black on white text and (and blue on white links) part of what you write. None of the "decorated view" that's available on the http view. And thus, I don't see the adds either (not that I'm so fond of adds, but it doesn't look fair since you intended us to see them).
This is most likely related to the way your RSS feed is implemented, because your blog is nearly the only one that behave this way, out of over a hundred feeds...

Philippe Auphelle

Re: No AddSense in the RSS view? jeff_duntemann February 19 2007, 16:34:12 UTC

Philippe--

If you're reading my blog mirror on LiveJournal, you won't see any ads, because I don't think they can be posted on a LiveJournal blog. The ads are all on my main site:

www.duntemann.com/Diary.htm

where ContraPositive has been since 2000. (It was on coriolis.com prior to that, down to its creation in mid-1998.) I created the LiveJournal mirror in part so people could read Contra via RSS, as I didn't want to manually create an RSS file every day.

Don't worry about not seeing the ads. The ads were an experiment, and they're not integral to my Web presence, particularly to Contra, which covers too much varied ground to be a good foundation for ad revenue.

Re: No AddSense in the RSS view? anonymous February 19 2007, 18:09:35 UTC

Jeff,

Yes, I'm reading the feed through
http://jeff-duntemann.livejournal.com/data/atom
Good to know everything behaved as you expected.

And while I'm around, let me say that I've been reading you since the beginning of PC Tech Journal / DDJ era (and followed all through the Coriolis adventures, PC Techniques, Visual Dev, and a number of the books you published, too).

I've always greatly appreciated your articles and tech books.

Time for a well deserved "Thanks"...

Philippe

Re: No AddSense in the RSS view? anonymous February 20 2007, 01:44:49 UTC

Speaking of RSS... I used to have to get my daily dose of Jeff's Diary through the older website (not the livejournal one). I can get confused and think of Jeff and Carol as an old friend or old family, forgetting that we don't know each other. In a word, the Diary often completes my day.

But when I shifted to an RSS feed, Jeff's diary just became another one of many that I slog through. Somehow his diary lost much of its personality.

Vince

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