Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been experimenting with different methods for cutting down on comment spam on both FiveCentNickel and Raising4Boys. This all started when I upgraded to WordPress 2.1. In the past, I’ve used SpamKarma 2 and had great luck with it. But as it turns out, things have been rearranged a [...]

It was late last year that I realized I could potentially make a living writing for the web. It was today that I knew that this was true. I make a modest (but decent) income at the box factory. But for the last week, my web income has equaled my income from my real job. [...]

After thinking long and hard about this, I decided to remove some of the Google Adsense blocks from FiveCentNickel and Raising4Boys about ten days ago. All of the positions were performing reasonably well, but I wanted to unclutter things a bit. Thus, I decided to tackle the weakest performing slots. I removed the right sidebar [...]

I received an invitation from Google to try out AdSense Video Distribution, a new advertising delivery format. The video content is provided by The Wall Street Journal in my case, and advertisements are placed between clips. Other content providers are available.
Google is providing a wide selection to match various types of [...]

I like to write. I enjoy keeping my web sites, and Get Rich Slowly is foremost among these. To maintain so many sites requires a certain level of discipline. Over the past few months I’ve observed a set of behaviors — in myself and in others — behaviors that are counterproductive to blogging. These include:

Checking [...]

Just a quick note to talk a bit about the power of writing a ‘Welcome’ post when you receive a big link. This morning, FiveCentNickel was featured in the NY Times (along with a number of other sites). Jim from pfBlueprint actually tipped me off to it last night shortly after the article went live.
As [...]