Trib Updates

 This is a weeklyseries that will include a brief summary of the latest articles that have beenpublished on The Tribulation Times Herald-Exhorter.  Hopefully, this will encourage you to gocheck out some truly outstanding articles that have been published by a numberof truly outstanding authors.  Moreover,I hope this will also encourage you to want to become a contributingmember/author, as well.  The “HearYe!  Hear Ye!” site explanation near thetop of the side-bar should answer many of your questions.  Yes, this series also included an “SOS! (SpamOn Saturdays)”  segment before, but itjust wasn’t working for me.  Therefore,that will be replaced by a republishing of one of the Trib articles. 

[K.I.S.S. II?] has me wondering if Black Veil Brides could be another KISS.

[Ron Jones – Star Trek – Where No One Has Gone Before – Talk With Mom] includes afairly well done video slide show from Lavender Darwin.

[Why I Will NEVER Have A Vasectomy!] is by you know who about you know what.

[Ham, Anyone?] contains a cartoon that I think is really funny.

[Lavender Darwin Captured and Arrested By Militant Urologists!!] indicates that it may bea while before we hear any more from Lavender, and that he may be speaking witha much higher voice when we do.

[Adios, Adgitize]

LastMarch, I published [Slick Adgitizing] as part of the [Come Monday] series onAsTheCrackerheadCrumbles.  It was abouthow several place non-Adgitize ads right up against the Adgitize widget, whichmakes them indistinguishable from the ones that Adgitize members click-on toget points.

Afterexchanging emails with Ken Brown, the owner(?) of Adgitize, he assured me thathe would check it out when he finished some project he was working on.  I never heard anything back from him afterthat, but several weeks later, I did notice that he had added a razor-thinborder to the widget, which was useless from my evidently overly cynicalpoint-of-view.

Withno official notice, many more are now doing the same thing.  I was preparing an update, which would haveincluded linked-icons of the sites that I have noticed, but I suppose it is amute point now.  For my patience with Mr.Brown has run-out, and I will be deleting my Adgitize account in the next dayor two.

No,it is not just on account of the slick adgitizing issue that I am leaving.  For when I went to renew the ad for thissite, I found that I did not have enough in my PayPal account.  When I went to see what was going on, Idiscovered that the last payment I had received from Adgitize was on September8^th for $12.59, which was down from the $15.31 that I had been paidon August 6^th.

Needlesslyto say, I was confused.  For a post is publishedeach and every day on AsTheCrackerheadCrumbles, which is where the Adgitizewidget is located, and several articles are published here each week.  Furthermore, I had been making enough dropsto earn the limit of 100 points every day until I stopped last week on accountof having better things to do.

WhenI asked Mr. Brown about what was going on via email around four hours ago, Ireceived a reply a couple of hours later, which is certainly commendable.  What he said was not.

I am showing earnings of $3.18for September and $4.73 for October. That is less than the necessary $10 thresholdto receive a payment from Adgitize.

When I look at your points earnedfor September and October you are earning 270 points a day which translate into9 to 11 cents a day. On the 3 days in October you wrote an article on your blogyou earned over 350 points. That would have earned you around 54 cents a day.It doesn't appear you have written an article since mid October that we haverecorded.

To behonest about it, I have never understood his points system, but I suspect thatthe main reason for why my income decreased so rapidly is on account of thecontent.  For last February, he notifiedme that much of what I publish was falling well short of what he considers tobe original content, and after I explained to him that there is still a greatdeal of work involved in even publishing my [Sites To See/A Sunday Drive] and[WhiteHeart Wednesday] series, he graciously apologized and all went merrilyalong until September.

Alas, Ifirst joined Adgitize in April of 2009. If you want to stay, proceed at your own risk.

***UPDATE***

Sincethis was published, I received another email from Mr. Brown that suggested thatI had not informed them of the RSS feed change to AsTheCrackerheadCrumbles,which occurred after the original Feedburner RSS feed for that site just quitworking.  Since I had not received anynotice of them no longer being able to pick up my feed, I assumed that it hadautomatically switched like it did in other cases.  Nonetheless, I am still done.

Please Also Visit:

[FishHawk Droppings]

and

[The Tribulation Times Herald-Exhorter]

Come Monday...Slick Adgitizing

“Come Monday…” is a weekly series that will involve a review of, or commentary about,  websites, movies, documentaries, television shows, sports, music, and whatever else may tickle my fancy at the time.  Be assured that these reviews will be generally positive, as in accordance to the Jimmy Buffett song “Come Monday.”  This is subject to change, however.  In fact, I would be most derelict in my duties to neglect going on a rant every once in a while.  For rants promote change, and change can be good—right?  Therefore, since good is generally considered as being a positive force in 99.3% of the parallel universes that I am aware of, even a rant could be considered as being something positive, and a genuine hissy-fit would be even better (so I’m told).

If you haven’t noticed before, may I now please direct your attention to my side-bar, and if you will scroll down a little bit from the top, you will see an [Adgitize] widget. Cutting to the chase, Adgitize is another advertising service that is quite similar to Entrecard.

No, that is just not right. For unlike Entrecard, you can actually make some money with Adgitize, and also unlike Entrecard (very much unlike, actually), the management of Adgitize is very accessible.

Speaking of such, I contacted Mr. Ken Brown, who is the owner-operator, chief cook and head bottle washer at Adgitize, a few weeks ago about something that really bothers me, and he assured me that he would immediately look into it. Some progress has been made, but there is a long way to go.

The thing that really bothers me is the placing of other ads very close to the top of the Adgitize widget. Some even take it as far as to place them right up against the top.

No, that would not be a problem with an Entrecard widget. For they only hold one ad at a time.  Whereas, an Adgitize widget can hold several, with there being a number of options available on how many and the configuration.

It really is pretty slick. For unless you are aware of what is going on, you will click on those "other" ads while thinking that you are scoring Adgitize points.

No, this is not to say that everyone who has placed "other" ads way too close to their Adgitize widget have done so with nefarious intentions. In fact, I am quite sure that some were just trying to make their sites look more presentable when they set it up that way.

Nonetheless, it is still something to look out for. For there are only so many hours in a day, and making wasted Adgitize clicks just makes the day a little shorter for something else.

On the other hand, if you are happy to click-on the "other" ads, this is all a moot point—isn’t it? That is, except for rewarding the efforts of those who are trying to be slick, of course. Perhaps it would make it easier to justify by thinking of them as being clever—huh?

Included below are some of the sites that I am talking about. Be assured that there are many more.

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[FishHawk Droppings]

and

[The Tribulation Times Herald-Exhorter]