Via Geek News Central, there’s news that the Washington Post blogs have their comments shut down temporarily until a better discussion format (or a better implementation of comments) comes up. According to the official Washington Post blog post, hate speech, personal attacks and profanity were the cause of this move.
In my opinion, it is a […]

Sometimes, minimalism can be taken a bit far. So far, in fact, that it becomes difficult to add Adsense to the blog. Maybe it’s just me, but I like having separate channels for my ads on the index page and those in post - even if the ad sizes are similar. To me, it’s pretty […]

An example of one of the big boys looking to expand its presence in the blogosphere is probably ZDNet. Their Jan 5 advert for tech bloggers:
Do you have a passion for technology? Want to share your from-the-trenches perspective with ZDNet’s readers? ZDNet is expanding its coverage with a series of new blogs on a variety […]

It seems Chitika has done a tiny makeover on its publisher page, removing the large icons for a CSS / DHTML horizontal menu. While it is nothing significant nor important, it does make navigation a little faster and easier.
But I’d still prefer if they worked on shortening their turnaround and auditing times rather than […]

And it seems there was some truth in what was said in yesterday post as Steve has announced an intention to replace the Chitika ads on StevePavlina.com with BlogAds given the lack of targeting adverts in his niche (i.e. personal development). No wonder we were only seeing tech-related Chitika ads!
Of course, this move also comes […]

Only recently (about 3 days back), we saw Steve Pavlina reveal his traffic and Adsense revenue growth over the past year. Darren Rowse has covered quite a bit of this at Problogger - highlighting the similarities of Steve’s Adsense growth chart with his own. More importantly, Darren notes that Pavlina’s high growth is an exception […]

I’m not sure whether this is a problem on Chitika’s side or mine. But I’ve been seeing some Internal Server Error messages where Chitika adverts should be present on one of my blogs using it.
See a couple of screenshots I took of this:

The first was supposed to show a Large Rectangle ad while the second […]

blogHelper recently experienced severe downtime (more than 24 hours) due to hardware problems on the host’s side. However, I hope I can say that the problem has been resolved and that this should not reoccur anytime soon.
Hopefully, the downtime did not inconvenience regular readers too much. I would like to say sorry for the downtime […]