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Over the weekend I made close to $1000 more than my normal level of earnings without doing anything different at all. In fact I didn’t intend to make the money and for 24 hours or so I didn’t even know anything abnormal was happening. How can this be so? Let ...more

I just had an email from AdSense telling me that they’ve just enabled EFT direct deposit payments to ALL Australian AdSense publishers. They had previously made this available to some publishers but I’m assured it’s now an open thing. The set up process takes a few steps but once it’s ...more

Last week’s experiment with Vidcasting brought a lot of positive feedback so I’ve decided to make it a regular thing. This week I’m testing blip.tv (still in beta) to host my video. Let me know what you think in comments. In this week’s vidcast (6 minutes and 23 seconds) I ...more

Drupal (a blogging platform) users will be excited today to see Drupal 4.7.0 has been released. New features include: Multiple Block Regions: Were you feeling constrained by only two choices for block placement? You can now dynamically specify as many block placement locations as you want. ‘Offline for Maintenance’ Configuration: ...more

I’m seeing a bit of buzz around today about BlogBurst TechCrunch advises that BlogBurst officially launches today. BlogBurst is a service that syndicates blogger’s content to mainstream media. The publishers using the content pay a CPM based fee to BlogBurst for the content and the blogger gets free exposure and ...more

Philip Lenssen has put together an alternative Technorati Top 100 list, based upon Google Backlinks. The results are a significantly different for quite a few blogs with Instapundit climbing from 7th to 1st, Talking Points Memo by Joshua Micah Marshall climbing from 35th to 2nd and Daily Kos going up ...more

Paid Content had an interesting piece last week on a move by PBS to start running AdSense ads on 2% of the the pages on their site. It caused a bit of a stir in some circles about whether it was within their charter to run ads on their site ...more

What is the most common language used by bloggers? It might surprise some to know that it’s not English but Japanese according to David Sifry. English comes in second with Chinese third. The interesting thing is that Japanese is on the rise in the last six or so months. In ...more

I just saw my first animated AdSense ad on one of my blogs. I can’t get the ad to show again to show you screen caps but it was a rectangle sized ad that was a series of three images that rotated for the first 20 or so seconds that ...more