I don’t pay a lot of attention to my Adsense totals during the day, but I do have the Adsense notifier Firefox plugin installed, and my eye wanders down there as I work.

A few minutes ago, my eye did that wandering thing and I nearly had a heart attack… I was showing 0 impressions, 0 clicks, 0 dollars! What the heck?!

But, Google just adjusted their adsense reporting page. It looks nice, but it’ll take some getting used to.

And I hope there’s an Adsense Notifier update soon.

Check out this PDF and videos from Scott Parat — he’s found an interesting way to create one-of-a-kind content pages using ArticleBot and Conversionary software.

You can download the PDF from his website here.

I finally finished the manual for the new version of Conversionary. This version does batches of text files all at once, it allows you more customization options for the Table of Contents, AND it now creates a Google Sitemap xml file!

If you’re interested in the latest and greatest how-to, you can download it here:
Conversionary_Manual.pdf

about this:
Will the U.N. Run the Internet?

Blogs And The Influence On News And The Media

“As debate continues about the effect that blogs and bloggers are having on politics, media and public opinion in Canada, a recent survey conducted by Ipsos-Reid and sponsored by PR Direct, a division of The Canadians Press, reveals that four in ten online Canadians (42%) have read a blog at least once.”

http://www.ipsos-na.com/news/pressrelease.cfm?id=2729

These are the findings of an Ipsos-Reid poll conducted from June 2nd to June 12th, 2005 via a representative online Canadian sample of 3,378 Canadian adults. For the total sample of 3,378 results are accurate 95% of the time with a +/-1.7 margin of error. For the sample of 1,355 blog readers, results are accurate 95% of the time with a margin of error of +/-2.7% of what it would have been had this entire population been surveyed.

Four-in-ten online Canadians (42%) have read a blog — particularly high among men (48%), those aged 18-34 (50%), and those with post secondary education (45%). Four-in-ten online Canadians (42%) admit to having read a blog, with the remainder (58%) saying they have not.

Blog use most popular among those:
With high household incomes of $60,000 or more (44%);
Men (48% vs. 35% among women);
Younger adults aged 18-34 (50%); and
Those with post secondary education (45%).

One-quarter of online Canadians (25%) believe blogs are accurate news sources – but, of those who have read blogs, 37% believe they are an accurate news source.

Among all online Canadians, one-in-four (25% — 2% very/23% somewhat) would describe their content as accurate. Thirty-eight percent would describe them as “not accurate”, a further 37% “don’t know”.

Four-in-ten (37%) of those who have read a blog at least once describe their content as “accurate” (4% very/34% somewhat), 51% believe they are “not accurate”, and 12% “don’t know”.

And of those who have read a blog, half (52%) say they trust the content.

Among those who have read a blog, 52% say that they trust the content in terms of these websites either somewhat (49%) or very much (3%). One-third (34%) say the do not trust the content at all, and 14% “don’t know”.

Of online Canadians, 34% say they trust the content on blogs (32% somewhat/2% very much), 26% don’t trust them at all, and 41% “don’t know”.

Among all online Canadians, many believe blogs influence public opinion (41%), media (33%), and politics (29%).