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Monthly Archives: July 2006

Google Adds AdSense Capability to Google Pages

July 31, 2006 – 9:07 pm

Inside AdSense announces today that you can place AdSense in pages from Google lab’s Page Creator.

Technorati Tags: adsense, google, google pages, google page creator

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Posted in Google | Comments (0)

Quick Note to Internet Explorer Users

July 31, 2006 – 11:17 am

It has just come to my attention that in IE at 1024 x 768 screen resolution, the sidebar is at the bottom. I’ll take care of it as soon as I get home from work. I apologize for the annoyance.
UPDATE: All fixy fixy. Thanks for your patience.

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Posted in Announcements | Comments (0)

What Does it Take to Get Rich?

July 30, 2006 – 1:09 pm

If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly, and even catastrophically, you stand little chance of ever getting rich.
If you care what the neighbours think, you will never get rich.
If you cannot bear the thought of causing worry to your family, spouse or lover while you plough a lonely, dangerous road rather than taking the [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Posted in Blogging Ethics | Comments (8)

How to Ban Spammers by IP Address in WordPress

July 28, 2006 – 11:45 am

I don’t even get all that much spam (Bad Behavior seems to work pretty well), but of course it’s always annoying when I do. One thing I never understood was that WordPress would only let you ban by IP address if you added that IP to the comments blacklist. Why isn’t there an option when [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (2)

Frames Strike Back

July 27, 2006 – 11:27 pm

Is it me, or has there been an increase in the number of websites using frames? Gmail does it. The new Netscape launches outbound links into a framed page that makes it easy to go back to perusing articles at Netscape (you can close it, too). About does the same thing, and so does every [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Posted in Blog Tools | Comments (1)

My Love/Hate Relationship with Microsoft

July 21, 2006 – 11:54 pm

The idea for this post was a screed against Microsoft trying to be cool with Zune, its new ipod-whatever service/thing. So let me just get that part out of the way real quick. Take a look at this:

That is what you see after a really cool flash animation plays while you listen to some really [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Posted in Google | Comments (5)

Popping my own Bubble

July 20, 2006 – 12:13 am

Tom Peters writes about how business used to be “ready, aim, fire!” and later it became “ready, fire! aim,” but that nowadays it’s just “Fire! Fire! Fire!” When I first conceived the idea for Video Bubble, I didn’t think about it very much before acquiring a domain, hosting, and slapping up a sign-up homepage. I [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Posted in Video | Comments (0)