New readers = more money (for now?)
Tim Bray details his experience with using Google AdSense on his blog. He’s making some money… of course, he was well known prior to blogging, and he’s earned a solid readership with his blog. The interesting points to me are:
Google knows his traffic, down to the individual page level. [...]
Tags: Tech
Third Phase, Nisenholtz style
Martin Nisenholtz’s keynote at the SIIA conference three days ago comes to me via E-Media Tidbits, the Poynter group blog. Rich Gordon also pointed to Larry Pryor’s 2002 article describing the ‘third wave’, with credit to Vin Crosbie (whose big promise comes due shortly). Nisenholtz is the CEO of NYTimes Digital, which [...]
Tags: Everything
Stop speculating
Fascinating Michael Crichton speech from April 2002 on why speculation is so futile — and the media has fallen farther and farther because of their willingness to indulge in this (yes) idle speculation.
Even though the speculation is correct only by chance, which means you are wrong at least 50% of the time, nobody remembers [...]
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U.S. government does usability
I haven’t read the usability guidelines (128 page PDF linked from this page), but of all the things my tax dollars could go to, this isn’t the worst.
Tags: Tech
Mail.app, part 7
Haven’t crashed in a day or two, but just want to keep the link just in case I need new ideas.
Tags: Email; Tech
Want to start a software company?
I don’t want to start a software company, but I do enjoy and appreciate the efforts of various developers, at large and small companies. I always wonder how well the small guys are doing. Here’s an MSDN piece on Getting Started with Your Own Software Company [via Slashdot]. Coincidentally, Brent [...]
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Movie: In America
Got out to see In America last week, and I’m glad we did. The decision was made as much by an inability to agree on anything else as a positive expectation about the film, but we were (unjustly?) rewarded all the same.
Very, very brief scene setting/plot summary: Irish parents with two young girls [...]
Tags: Movies
Beauty hurts?
Over the weekend, the boy delivered a classic line, although he didn’t know it. The girl was in a dress, which is rare enough since she’s seven months old. The red dress has a belt which is knotted in the back (aka, a bow). The boy asks “Why is she tied up in a [...]
Tags: Family
Mail.app… the saga continues
Again, from Macintouch, more ideas/tips about Mail.app problems. New idea: “… I traced the problem down to a malformed HTML-based message that had no subject line.” I’ve seen some of those, but had not connected the crashes to an individual type of email. Hmmm… I’ll keep an eye out.
Tags: Email; Tech
More on Mail.app at Macintouch
Mail hasn’t crashed for a day or so while I try re-training the Junk mail filter. Here’s more reports. Again, two kinds of problems, freezes and crashes. I’ve only had problems with the crashes. Lucky me?
Tags: Email; Tech