Every couple of weeks, I bring up ‘RSS’ when I’m talking with a friend or family member that is not affiliated with the software industry and every time the result is the same.

I get this furrowed brow and this look that says “why do I care, what are you talking about and I’m not going to get it this time around so please change the subject.”

A few weeks back however, I stumbled upon “feedblitz”. Now it is simple. You don’t have to subscribe to my RSS feed, use a feed aggregator; none of that. Just type your email into the little yellow box in the top right column of my blog (not the one in this post and every time I update my site, you will be sent an email. Simple right?

For the few of you that already have done this, sorry it hasn’t worked I managed to screw up the configuration on my end, but it should be fixed now.

Back in January I wanted to do a little competitive analysis and understand Google and their AdSense model. They have built a huge grassroots network of people to host ads on their websites and blogs. The ads are targeted based on keywords (text) found in your webpage. When people visiting your site click on a link, you get paid a small fee or cut of what the advertiser paid Google to host the advertisement.

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