Not Like the Others.
If I was like the rest of the “blogosphere”, I’d be posting about Google Analytics and Google Base.
Like I said about becoming an Angry Blogger:
I have found myself with far too many RSS feeds to read. With too much content to read, I become an unhappy blogger when I come across something that’s been posted four times by four different sites. I become even more agitated when three of them link to the fourth and add nothing to the conversation.
I also said:
I certainly encourage others to post on their own blogs, or anonymously comment on someone else’s, when they have a dissenting view. If we do not dissent, we cannot continue to build and promote blogging to its full potential.
I posted anonymously this morning on a website. When I post anonymously, I often say things to incite the author into responding. I don’t have to believe what I’m saying because it’s anonymous. I’m finding that the writing the author responds with, either in comments, or new posts, is frequently better than that of the post I commented on. I’m proud of my anonymous comments, but I don’t stand behind what I say, I stand behind the results that often take place afterwards. I’ve anonymously commented on some very popular sites, and it’s not uncommon for the author to acknowledge and respond to my comments in a separate post. In some ways, I think it’s amusing that these people take anonymous comments so seriously, but at the same time, that’s exactly what I’m hoping for.
So, after posting anonymously on a website this morning, I posted partially anonymous (Darren has my email address) on Darren’s Problogger. I was meaner than normal when I sign my name, but not only did he acknowledge the truth of my comment, and even edited the main post to reflect the truth of my comment, but he also responded to the statements I wrote to incite the author to respond.
To top it all off, one person explicitly agreed with me in a later comment, (a person whose site, I believe, I have commented anonymously on in the past), and another person commented similarly to me as to the extremely low CTR of Chitika ads.
I believe I did my part in continuing to build and promote blogging to its full potential today. Did you?
What’s going on at Google?
On occasion, I see people post things on the experiments of search engines that they’ve come across or hacked websites. They always get screenshots, and they’re always posting about it on the internet. I rarely see anything exciting. So, when I did a search for a musical group I listened to in the 90s, Shai, I saw something on Google I’d never seen before.
The thing is, it’s not even that helpful. Any ideas what they’re trying to do?
Successful Month isn’t Enough.
After realizing that I’d doubled my revenue, and that my November earnings were looking fantastic, my earnings have dropped and are flatlining. I previously said:
Even if my daily earnings were to drop to 50% of the current level for the rest of the month, I’d have had a successful month.
While the statement is true, it’s an optimistic view that I’m not feeling as much today. Instead of thinking about how successful this month will still be, I’m having a general feeling of the sentiment on the post “How Much Money is Enough?” Attaining a high and then having a drop in earnings, even if just to more “reguar” levels, just isn’t anything to get excited about. One day not so long ago, I would’ve been thrilled with $1.00/day. These days, I expect a good bit more than that.
