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?
This is my personal blog. The ideas and opinions here are mine alone and not those of my employer.
