I got a rather nasty shock today when I read a story about a blogger who makes $10000-$20000 per month from google ads on his blog. I have been trying to convince myself that it simply isn’t possible to make money from blogs, my ads have netted me a grand total of $0.98 in a month and a half….some people are just plain lucky I guess.
Samuel
2 comments July 18th, 2005 at 11:46pm
I’m pleased to be able to announce that Mozilla Firefox had another increase in users during June.
It seems that the educated group of web surfers has increased to 8.71%, up from 8.00% in May. Microsoft’s poor excuse for a browser dropped from 87.23% in May to 86.56 in June.
That means that Firefox is up 0.71% and Internet Explorer is down 0.67%, which probably means that it isn’t just IE users switching to Firefox, but users of other browsers (Mozilla Suite, Netscape, Opera, etc) as well.
Since the start of Webstat monitoring for this blog, we have recorded:
Mozilla Firefox 56.42%
Internet Explorer 42.23%
Apple Safari 0.68%
Netscape 0.68%
At the end of each month I will bring you Webstat reports for the month, but if you can’t wait, you can always view the stats by clicking on the link on the right hand side of the page.
Samuel
Add comment July 18th, 2005 at 11:27pm
I’ll kick off this new feature by reposting an image you have seen before (saves me digging through files!).
This is a picture of me holding a cup of coffee in a room where Schnappi the little crocodile is singing (Prior to me coming to the realisation that there is a “c” in Schnappi).
Also in this room is a clock chiming at 10am, a radio and photos of Telstra Tower, Parliament House, my house and Nattie.
Clicking on the picture will show a larger version, you can also find it on the photo gallery.
More of Samuel’s Artwork coming soon.
Samuel
Add comment July 18th, 2005 at 11:19pm
2CC’s Mike Welsh had an interview with someone from the Museum of Particularly Bad Art about their Itchyball Prize, which seemed so interesting that I thought I would mention it.
Basically, all you have to do is send them your bad artwork and the one they judge as the worst wins $2000. I have plenty of pictures I have drawn over the years that I could enter, but they require the original, and I don’t like to part with my art.
None the less, it is rather interesting and the end result should also be interesting.
I doubt that I will submit any of my artwork, but I might run a series of “Samuel’s Art” specials right here on my blog.
Samuel
Add comment July 18th, 2005 at 11:00pm
As you may have noticed, some of the images and links from here haven’t been working over the last 48 hours. This has been due to some minor physical relocation of the goggo.dyndns.org server which hosts my photo gallery amongst other things. The relocation has been completed and that server is now back online.
Samuel
Add comment July 8th, 2005 at 06:48pm
You could be forgiven for thinking I have disappeared off the face of the earth. Luckily, that hasn’t happened, instead I spent most of last week in Mitchell “The garden suburb of the North” on work experience, and due to a non-disclosure agreement I am unable to say much about it.
I’ll have a think about what I can and can’t say before I say anything.
Samuel’s Blog will return to normal shortly (tonight or tommorow), so stay tuned.
Samuel
Add comment July 3rd, 2005 at 11:12pm
Yay, I don’t have to upload images to my photo gallery before putting them on my blog.
I felt like using the new feature to add the picture to the left of screen.
And it automatically sizes it nicely, I like this.
Samuel
2 comments June 26th, 2005 at 05:44pm
Another Exciting Change on Samuel’s Blog!
As some of you may have noticed, you can view stats for this blog by clicking on the little graph picture under the heading “Blog View Stats”. This service is provided by Nedstat, however I have noticed some minor problems with it…the major ones being that a number of the stats only account for the last 100 page views, and that there is no easy way to see what search phrases are being used to find the site…I get keywords and referring URL’s which is a pain in the neck.
I have now added WebStat monitoring to the site as well, the free counter isn’t as detailed as nedstat, but it makes life a lot easier for me as I can see some meaningful overall reports whilst letting nedstat do it’s recent trends thing (and make pretty pictures on the fly).
Both the detailed recent nedstat stats, and the meaningful long term stats are availabe from the sidebar. Note that the Webstat stats are new and won’t be detailed for a little while…but they are there anyway, enjoy!
Samuel
Add comment June 14th, 2005 at 12:00am
The “Grapevine through Transact” using lunatic who left comments here and here has acheived two things:
1. Made a complete idiot out of themself by posting rubbish that contradicts fact.
2. Prompted me to lock down comments, you now have to be a registered user of blogger.com, if you aren’t you can sign up here. I really didn’t want to force people to sign up to blogger.com just to comment, but anonymous loonies are good at forcing it.
The blog stats don’t keep exact IPs, they either show ISP or partial IP, in this case it was partial IP, 203.129.37.x, I could find out the full IP by looking at the logs for the site where the images are hosted, but I couldn’t be bothered, and don’t want to post a dynamic IP anyway.
Samuel
Add comment June 8th, 2005 at 06:43pm
Yes, I know this was due on Friday, but you’re getting it today instead.
Starting from tommorow (Monday) I will wear a pedometer and see how many steps I take during the day…could be very interesting.
Samuel
Add comment June 5th, 2005 at 09:21pm
Well, I think it’s exciting.
If you look at the links on the right hand side of screen you will notice that there is a link to take you back to the blog’s home page, this has been added to aid navigation from the posts to the home page.
Previously, if you were on the permanent page for a post then you couldn’t get back to the home page easily, now you can!
Samuel
Add comment June 2nd, 2005 at 08:06am
Just in case I forget…Tommorow (June 2) is my birthday.
Expect an exciting new statistic to start on June 3.
And if you are in a place where you can receive “New Day Australia with John Kerr”, then tune in at midnight Canberra time (which is 14:00 June 1 GMT) as my name is on the birthday list and I plan on ringing John.
New Day Australia can be found on 2UE Sydney, 4BC Brisbane, 2CC Canberra and numerous other stations around Australia (Probably your local John Laws relay station) or on the web via the web stream at www.2ue.com or www.4bc.com.au
If I remember, I might record the conversation as a memento and place it online.
Samuel
Add comment June 1st, 2005 at 05:33pm
Yes, the changes continue, and they are all for the better.
One question I have asked myself is “Why do are all these people interested in my rantings”, I still don’t have an answer to that question, but what I do know is that some people like to see what I’ve been up to, and others find answers to questions, for example, a look at the Blog View Stats would show that some people have found my information on getting a Canon MPC400 printer working under Linux to be useful…but whatever the reason for coming to my blog, I want to make it enjoyable, and as such, I have added some new features to the blog.
You may have noticed that there is a Google search box at the top of this page (and every other page on the blog), this has been added for your convenience, you can easily search my blog from there which would be very useful for finding one of those archived posts, or you can search the web from the Google search box. I shouldn’t really need to explain that “Google Is Great”, I think you already know that.
The other improvement is advertising…hmmmm, I hear people moaning…look, it isn’t that bad, it is actually quite good. I could have gone with any number of advertising providers, but I don’t want ads that flash, flicker, buzz, popup, popunder, squeal, annoy or interupt. That rules out a lot of advertising sites. I also don’t want ads for “Pills & Potions ‘R Us” or those annoying ads that appear on Yahoo Mail and Hotmail “You can live and work in another country”…who cares??? I don’t want to move country, and I doubt many of my readers do, if you want to move country then call a travel agent.
So I made a decision, I decided to use Google Adsense for a few reasons:
1. The ads are relevant because they are based on the content of my blog.
2. They don’t violate my “flash, flicker, buzz, popup, popunder, squeal, annoy or interupt” rule.
3. They fit nicely on the side of the page in some nice blank space.
4. They are controllable, if I don’t want a particular ad, I can block it.
5. It’s Google, and “Google Are Great”
(Note to Google Adsense people who are likely to be alerted to my saying “Adsense” a zillion times: This is not designed to promote the ads or draw unnecesary attention to them, I do not believe that I have violated the Adsense terms and conditions, and if anything, I beleive I have promoted Adsense as a product that others can use.)
I think these changes will make the blog a better place, and I welcome your comments.
Samuel
Add comment June 1st, 2005 at 05:06pm
This week looks like it is going to be a week of exciting announcements, today is no exception. Today, I, Samuel Gordon-Stewart, hereby announce the grand opening of Samuel’s Musicians Of The Week.
This week’s musicians are Boney M
Samuel
Add comment June 1st, 2005 at 11:49am
As you have probably noticed, the Coffee-cup-o-meter is out of service, it will probably stay that way, but for the moment there is a slightly more exciting statistic. At the top of the blog I have added a countdown to my 18th birthday, which will officially occur at 11:01 PM Canberra time on the 2nd of June 2005 (Which is 1:01 PM GMT).
If you are feeling like sending me something special, I would love to receive an email from you (which would allow me to reply personally) or an e-card (Hallmark have some fantastic free birthday E-Cards) or perhaps just a comment on the blog. Regardless of what you choose to do (if anything), I will be most appreciative.
That reminds me: despite what some people have said to me, you don’t actually need to be a member of blogger.com to comment on this blog, I have deliberately made sure that anonymous comments are allowed.
Stay tuned, after my birthday I have a new and mildly exciting statistic lined up.
Samuel
Add comment May 31st, 2005 at 06:52pm
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