Business Strategy, Personal Development, Marketing
I’m a professional freelance writer who makes money writing online in several ways, one of which is using Google AdSense on websites I own and publish content on. I don’t do much (Ok, none) buying of ads via Google’s AdWords platform. However, an AdSense publisher I find it very useful to stay up to date … Read more
The website Smashing Magazine published a take on whether or not ad blocking software hurts good websites and by extension those who make their living working with good websites. This time the article comes from the point of view of web designers. My conclusions remain the same. I will turn off my AdBlock Plus, actually … Read more
Facebook is not a publicly traded company. Although there are many people speculating that Facebook will go public in the near future. As a privately held company, Facebook is not required to release any financial information to the public. Furthermore, the company does not have to have its finances audited either. That doesn’t keep financial … Read more
An interesting post over at ARS Technica about how ad blocking hurts websites. The post is interesting for two reasons. First, the article, written by ARS Technica’s founder and owner, goes into more detail than is often the case regarding how ad supported websites work and how blocking those ads can hurt the website in … Read more
I use the NoScript plug-in for Firefox. However, there are tons of websites that use JavaScript for legitimate functionality. For example, the Mozilla forums use a javascript:history.back() for the back button in the forums. There is obviously no need to block this. Originally, I tried to allow everyone to use JavaScript and then block the … Read more