June 25, 2003

Ads
For those of you with websites (Lib?), here's a fun hack that lets you see what Google's adbot thinks of your (or any other) site. I tried this space's address and ended up only with ads for John Kerry, various weblog tools, and a group called Students For War (I'm too cheerful a person ever to make that up), which would constitute a frame for this space that I'm unwilling to view.

Apparently this works as a Get Rich Slowly scheme, too:

Google analyzes the content of your pages and searches for relevant ads and returns them. Everytime someone clicks on an ad, Google pays you 50 cents (although this amount appears to be decreasing).
The social ramifications are sort of interesting. If you maintain a free site about $OBSCURETOPIC, you don't have time to woo advertisers, take their money, run an advertising system, give them statistics and reports, etc. But you do have time to add a dab of HTML to the page and wait for Google to mail you a check.
Clicking on ads from the above link causes Google to send Aaron money. Do what you will.
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Boston's unending, wet Spring, which is easy to bitch about, has given way to Boston's totally overwhelming humidity. Dick and I put the air conditioner in, so now the bedroom, once entered, can't be left. Might just have to get a second air conditioner for the kid's room, or move to somewhere drier.
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