Blimey!

Only just come across this, from The Guardian’s Newsblog. Bizarre…

Slough Tory sacked

Assiduous readers may recall our story revealing that the Conservatives’ prospective parliamentary candidate for Slough, Adrian Hilton, believed the EU was part of a Catholic conspiracy to impose Vatican hegemony on Britain. Well, last night Michael Howard sacked him….

Ad(Non)Sense

Buzz Marketing with Blogs discusses Google’s AdSense programme. Am surprised at this: 

I was all set to tell you about Fred Wilson, a venture capitalist in New York who just publicly posted his exact Google AdSense revenue figures for the year.  He made $500, he says, and he’s got charts to back it up!

This is notable not because for the grand total, but rather because Google’s AdSense Terms of Service prohibit any discussion of click through rates or payments—a stance that has long aggravated many naturally chatty bloggers.

How the hell did he manage to make that much? I have some AdSense adverts over at Palimpsest and have so far managed to make about 20p.

Subscriptions

Just been reordering all my Bloglines feeds in FeedDemon. On Bloglines I had kept them all on the ‘top level’ and not sorted them into folders, but that method makes things far too unwieldy when working offline. So, I have chosen the following categories:

  • Computers & Internet
  • Blogging
  • General
  • News and Sport
  • Politics
  • Books

Obviously the ‘General’ one is a bit of a catch-all, but surprisingly it doesn’t have that much in it at the moment…