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• 03-AugGoogle Adsense Gone For Good [-]
  All last month, we kept hoping that Google’s “contextual” ads would figure out that they needed to show Harrisonburg-specific results, or at least results related to what people were blogging about. They didn’t, and so it really came as little shock that the ads stopped bringing in any revenue whatsoever. Today the final straw came [...]
• 02-JunAds update [+]
  Some of the Google Adsense ads are temporarily disabled. Google stopped delivering normal ads because we have to take care of some verification steps that’ll take a few days to complete. The ads aren’t really worth much, but so long as Google can deliver ads that make sense for the site, we’ll jump through their [...]
• 16-MayNow Serving Your Comments! [+]
  The big new development today is that the site now pulls in remote blog comments to the homepage (see the recent comments section just under the local news section). I could have done this a long time ago, but my fear was that a lot of spam would be pulled in along with legitimate comments. [...]
• 14-MayAdvertising on hbblogs [+]
  You may have noticed that hbblogs is now serving up ads by Google. I don’t know whether these ads will actually bring in any money, but they’re a very easy way to start advertising on the site. Personally, I’m not especially optimistic about making money through adsense. It might turn out to be a decent little [...]
• 13-MayDo I Really Sound Like That? My Interview With AFP [+]
  I had the privilege of doing a short interview with Chris Graham of the Augusta Free Press earlier today. We talked about hbblogs, how it developed, and the sort of service its intended to provide. But all I can think of as I’m listening to it is “gosh, is my voice really that high-pitched?” Listen [...]