Dan was telling me a month or two ago that he's using Google
AdSense on his blog. Now that I'm actually doing this regularly, I figured I'd try it out, and while I'm at it, on a few parts of my other sites.
I'm highly curious what sort of ads it will dish up. There isn't exactly a massive market for products related to developing Russian languages patches for FreeCiv, for instance. Initial results are not all that positive, but we'll see. It may be a very short-lived experiment :-)
This is presently deployed here on The ChangeLog, on the directory indices on the HTML-to-Gopher gateway on
quux.org, and the message pages of the list archives on
lists.complete.org.
On the monetary side, running all this costs me about $600 per year. While I would be quite surprised if AdSense brings in that much, maybe it would at least bring in enough to pay for some more disk space for the Gopher server...
I'll keep you updated.
bicycling, 
Comments
Sun, 05.10.2008 20:40
There is no denying that there have been plenty of people th at have killed in the name of Christianity. That does [...]
Sun, 05.10.2008 18:34
I think the formula you wanted is git format-patch $(git rev-list HEAD | tail -1)
Sun, 05.10.2008 14:23
I know it sounds nice to you, but, Christianity means an opp ressive, theocratic, brutal, b loody regime to many of [...]
Sat, 04.10.2008 23:47
I agree that there must be sen sible limits on government exp enditure, for sure. Healthc are is one of those wher [...]
Sat, 04.10.2008 23:43
Not at all, and I completely a gree with you. But I wanted to stress that part, because not everyone does.
Sat, 04.10.2008 23:41
Hi Cliff, I agree with you that the "they take jobs Ameri cans won't" argument doesn't m ake sense. I also agree [...]
Sat, 04.10.2008 17:26
I always worry when people cla im their ethics are founded on religious tenets, since most religions have a lot of [...]
Sat, 04.10.2008 08:37
"We are torturing potentially innocent people." Are you i mplying that it's allowed to t orture "guilty" people? [...]