Ads were ruining my site

Adam is right. The damn 336×280 AdSense ads took over my blog and made it look like a splog. Hey man, I like money as much as the next guy, but not if it ruins my blog. (Note: Registered users have always been shielded from ads on this site, but I realize it’s a pain in the ass to register.)

I think I’ll cook something up to only show ads on posts older than a month, which will spare my regular readers of that crap. For now, they’re disabled.

I also fixed some feed issues. Had to tidy up around here.

jotsheet: Best of 2006

Ha! Just kidding! I’m not going through all the work to write up some cliché “best of” post. Go read one of the 29739482235 other “best of 2006″ posts on your bloated RSS subscription list.

Instead, here’s the jotsheet’s 2002 “year in review.” Like you care.

Tagged - Five Things About Me meme

I’ve changed my mind. I fucking hate this thing. It’s all over the internets. Sorry about that.

Tagged - 5 things you might not know about me

Jack tagged me. He probably knows I hate memes, but I suspect this is part of a diabolical plan to appeal to my grotesquely self-indulgent nature, compelling me to write about myself and consequently look like a hypocrite.

His plan worked.

  1. I’m afraid of heights.
  2. From K-12, I attended nine schools.
  3. I have never seen The Wizard of Oz (or a ton of other seminal films, for that matter).
  4. I’m having a hard time thinking of something interesting.
  5. I don’t own a sweater. I might buy one of those.

In turn, I’m tagging these guys and inviting them to be self-indulgent:

RSS subscription growth graph

Cute little function at FeedBurner, courtesy of Joost de Valk, displaying how much the internets love me.

Feed circulation data for underscorebleach/jotsheet

Too many autodiscoverable feeds

too many feeds!It seems as though many blog authors have no idea how many feeds they’ve made autodiscoverable. For example, check out Bloglines’ subscribe view of PaidContent (at right).

That’s 13 feeds! How do I know which to subscribe to–particularly when they’re not using the title attribute to name any of them?

Many blogs have zero autodiscoverable feeds–and that’s a problem, too–but I think it’s actually the lesser of two evils.

Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading

It’s easy to subscribe to a few blogs and then fall into patterns. As long as you stay within certain circles in the blogosphere, you’ll miss out on a lot of quality content.

That’s why I found Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading from Fimoculous particularly useful.

It lists high quality but lesser-known blogs in a number of areas. There’s something here for everybody.

At #19 is Journerdism from Will Sullivan, one of my favorite blogs at the moment.