The month of January was a little slow for Consumerism Commentary. While there are a few hours left if I want to write some more entries, as of right now I have written 58 blog entries this month. This is on level with December, but down from almost every other month in 2006. [...]

A couple of weeks ago I switched to full-text RSS feeds on both FiveCentNickel and Raising4Boys (details here and here). Now that a bit of time has passed, I thought I’d write a bit about what has happened so far…
First, RSS subscribership is up a bit on both sites. That being said, it’s hard to [...]

At the beginning of the year, I lamented about the decline of my AdSense income towards the end of 2006. January has turned out to be a better month for me in this respect, but I’d like to see the trend over a few months before I declare the blog advertising bubble burst.
Total internet [...]

I’ve recently been debating the merits of partial vs. full-text RSS feeds on fivecentnickel.com and raising4boys.com. Truth be told, I much prefer full-text feeds when it comes to keeping track of sites, but I’ve actually been offering partial-text feeds on my own sites. The main reason for this is that it drives me nuts when [...]

Today, BoingBoing and Consumerist linked to an article I wrote last night and posted this morning, Do I Need to Report This Income? Part 1. So far, the server is holding up and not buckling underneath the medium wave of traffic.
It’s almost a shame. Tomorrow’s Part 2 is much better.

AdSense is becoming a smaller percentage of my website income. The following chart includes the LinkWorth (red) and Text Link Ads (green) portions, which have been steadily growing since they’ve been implemented. Most Text Link Ads advertisers are locked into low rates, so the only chance to improve income from that service is [...]

My below average AdSense income I mentioned last month is indicative of a lowering trend for me. As I’ve spread my AdSense account across new websites, the total amount has been slightly decreasing since the peak in August.

Other advertising services have outpaced AdSense at this point. I’ll look at my 2006 income from [...]