EDIT: I removed the widget referenced below because after a few people installed it (including me of course) it turns out that the links which were appearing were to sites that did not even have the widget installed.

Additionally, the links were often extremely low quality since there was no quality control involved other than self-selection into the program. Bottom line: this service will take away more value than it will add. Sorry about the false start… it sounded great to begin with.

Some of you may have noticed that I just added a new widget to my sidebar. It’s called the Blog Rush widget, and it is a free article promotion service. Every time the page loads a few articles from similar blogs are shown in the widget. And for every time the widget is displayed on your blog, your latest articles will appear on another blog’s widget!
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Hold on, hold on. Before everyone goes and gets all upset with me, this is not a jab at Christianity. It’s actually an illusion that features Jesus!

You might need to stare at the lines for a few minutes, but after a little while you’ll begin to see the outline of a figure. I found it helpful to actually step away from the monitor to really see the image pop out.
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Jeremy Wright of b5media covered the topic of Blog Monetization during the WordCamp 2007 Conference in San Francisco on July 21, 2007.

Jeremy has experimented with dozens of types of monetization and ads and shared some of his experience with the WordCamp community regarding what works and what doesn’t.
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Folks, since my site has gotten fairly popular I have people who want to advertise on the home page. The problem is that I didn’t know of a good method of embedding Ads that only show up on the home page and don’t appear site wide. (And not in the sidebar.)

I needed to employ a little PHP trickery in order to get this to work and I figured I’d share the methodology in case anyone else wanted to do this, or had a better idea as to how to pull it off.
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There is a new advertising mechanism being offered by AdBrite called BritePic which allows Web authors to place advertising on or around photos on any Web site. However, Web authors need to be aware that this service can have some fairly drastic consequences.

The way BritePic works is, you simply replace a direct link to an image with a JavaScript link from AdBrite that includes the image link. Anywhere on your web site that you would normally insert an image, you now insert the BritePic link.
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Philips has come up with a way to ensure that the teens of tomorrow can seriously annoy the hell out of… well, just about anyone, by developing a fabric that essentially acts like a computer monitor.

The fabric, called Lumalive, has boatloads of little LEDs along with superfine wires embedded into it. When connected to a controller it can display full motion animation.

Check it out.
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