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Money For Nothing (#2181)
Posted: 10/31/2007; 10:21 AM by Terry Frazier
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I got a $111 check from Google this week, the result of Google AdSense ads on this site. I got a $101 check last March, so my year's total is a little over $200. That's not much, really. Until you consider that I don't update this site but about 3 or 4 times a year, and then only by making one or two posts before another long drought sets in.

But $200 for nothing is enough to make me realize the Google business model is real and I ought to be working it more. But that probably won't be here. This blog seems to have about run its course unless I can start working once again in areas I can talk about. What people seem to like to read most (at on this site) is solving problems.

I solved most of my technology problems and stabilized my environment two or three years ago. I don't do anything radical to upset the apple cart. But those are the posts still draw lots of hits.

I can't talk about the problems I solve at work these days because the customers are really big companies and everything is always under NDA. Prattling on about the theory behind the problems would bore me to tears. And I don't really follow the depressing areas of copyright, politics, or homeland security anymore because they are, well, depressing.

So my subject matter is all dried up. But I'm still making money. And that excites me. The Long Tail may be really skinny, but it's there. Time to put my thinking cap on.
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