Archive for December, 2005

My company, JotSpot, has a position available for a client-side engineer, aka javascript programmer. After a year of working for JotSpot, I can highly recommend the company, and this in particular is a very cool job. If you’ve got the portfolio to impress us, send your resume to jobs at jot.com, or feel free to get it touch with me (a@f.n) if you have questions about the company or position.

I recently started experimenting with text advertising on fettig.net. I want to get up to speed on web advertising, and the best way to learn is to use myself as a guinea pig. For the past week I’ve been putting text ads from the Yahoo! Publisher Network on my blog pages, which has been making me about a dollar a day – not much, but more than enough to cover my hosting expenses.

As the next step in this little experiment, I’m putting ads into my RSS feed. The idea of putting a little ads after each post in your RSS feed seems like a good one to me. The ad is nice and small, and doesn’t get in the way of your content, but it makes it possible to make money of your feed. I do have one concern, which is what will happen on sites that syndicate my feed. I don’t really want to be injecting ads into Planet Python or Planet Textdrive or any other site that aggregates my feed. So for now I’ve wrapped the RSS ad code in a PHP if statement so it will only show up in this post. This way I can see what happens on the Planets and other sites before I turn on RSS ads for all posts. So tell me: where are you reading this post? Do you see the ad? Is it annoying, neutral, or helpful?