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Archive for April, 2009

About a year ago we were going through the process of migrating to Australia. In the process, to prove we are a genuine married couple, we wrote the last will in which we left everything to the other in case of death. However, while writing my will, I noticed a lot of quite unusual things that needed to be wrapped up in the case of my death. Like who is going to notify my online friends that I’m dead. At this point of one’s life it is pretty theoretical anyway, so it’s a safe distance from the actual event.

So I started writing down my passwords and user names for different websites I administrate and online profiles that I have, giving instructions to people in the case of my death. I wanted to make sure that my online friends and followers would not have to wonder what happened to me, but someone would be updating my profiles with a link back to my blog explaining what happened. The real life friends will be told naturally, but who’s going to tell the hundreds of people online that are waiting for you to get on Twitter finally!

So I made the Internet Instructions an appendix to the will, only stating in the will who is responsible for the updates, and that only they should be given the sealed envelope. But isn’t it quite amazing to think that these days, pretty much all of us need a press release to the world notifying what happened? After all, were still a bunch of nobodies. One of the things I put in mine, was that you have to submit my MySpace profile to MyDeathSpace.com. As chorny and hmm.. tastless as it may be, I want my update.

So who’s going to update your Twitter with the words: “If you are reading this, it means I’m dead… http://tinyurl…”

I am also experimenting with the social browser Flock. I host my own Wordpress installation, and it seems I can blog straight from the browser without logging into the administration area of my blog. That’s pretty cool, huh? This looks fairly interesting to me… Shiny!

I am currently experimenting few ad networks, even EntreCard is back on the menu as they recently did some changes I wanted to check out. CMF ads visited my sidebar again, but as there still was no advertisers I took it down again. – I don’t think you should ask for advertisers on the ad networks forum to get people advertising, especially as it seems we’re supposed to buy ads of each other which makes little sense to me.

Project Wonderful has been hanging on for a while, even though the few pennies I earn doesn’t really ad up, but it has a good ad campaigning system so everything that I earn I’ll pretty much put back in.

The network I’m now going for is Adgitize. The reason for this is that the network, that seems to be in early days and quite amateurish in look still, is run by a guy who seems very dedicated to his thing and who is making eager effort to make his network flourish. The sad thing is that since the network is lacking in looks, I think it is hard to take seriously. It attracts second grade… Or shall we even say third grade blogs as publishers, often beginners and those who will add any gadget out there on their blog just because they learned the art of “copy paste”. Not only that, they are the ones who will add 3×3 -ad code to their site. In my opinion it shouldn’t even be offered. 3 ad boxes is more than enough and often that is too much on the same network (lowers the price paid for each ad box as there’s more room).

Anyway, Adgitize is good for small and medium sized blogs because you can earn in multiple ways on their system. It’s not only how many ads you show, or how many is clicked, it also has to do with you clicking on others adds, how many ads you show (this shouldn’t be rewarded imho), it even rewards you for posting content onto your own blog! There are a lot of things this network could do to improve, but it has such a flying start that I wish more serious bloggers who have more self control on advertising and understanding of quality would get into it as well.