Blogging, web advertising and miscellaneous fun stuff

Hi gang. I’ve got 20 invitations to the Beta of True Knowledge.

I’d thoroughly recommend you give it a try. It’s Search, but with a difference. You ask it a natural language question, such as “What is Pi?” and you get a response like this (click to enlarge):

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Disclosure: The links in this post are affiliate links for Performancing Ads. That means that if you follow the links and decide to sign up, I might get some commission.

As you can see from my sidebar, I’m trying out Performancing Ads on this and a couple of other blogs.

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Google has released Knol to the public. Knol is Google’s take on Wikipedia, but with a few twists, the main one being that you can monetise your pages with AdSense.

The editor is very easy to use. I put together the start of my Flight Simulator Knol in about half [...] Continue Reading…

Looks like Amazon’s S3 is down.

I switched to using Amazon S3 to host all the graphics on my largest blog. It’s the first time they’ve gone down since I started using them, so I’m not going to be giving them a hard time - yet

I only found this [...] Continue Reading…

This is a question I’ve been asking myself lately in relation to my biggest blog - FlightSimX. I’ve included a screenshot below, so you don’t need to visit the site to see what I’m referring to.

Now, the biggest “problem” for me is that dirty great AdSense ad right under [...] Continue Reading…