Comments on: Away with Google Adsense and Hurray for Google Reader

By: gje

gje — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:31:58 +0000

@ Darren

The Google “widget” is a simple javascript that you can generate on Google Reader’s site and then copy and paste in your side bar.

Only problem I have is that I don’t like the Googles of this world to see what RSS feeds I read on their own puters. Even if the feeds are totally innocent. Over the weekend I was shocked to hear the news here in NL that the CIA seems to have unlimited direct access to SWIFT data (29,000 something banks use SWIFT!), without (at least the Dutch) bank clients being aware of this…think economic espionage.. What access does Bush c.s. more. I wouldn’t be surprised they scrape EVERYTHING from the WWW as well. Then I rather read my Feeds on my own puter and push it onto this blog, although I realize it will also be subject to traffic sniffing.

Well, what can you do?

Regards

Guido

By: gje

gje — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:21:36 +0000

Paul
No wonder i can find you ALWAYS behind your key Board :-)
Regards
Guido

By: paul

paul — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:16:56 +0000

I use AdSense within posts and, although it makes only a modest sum on the blog alone, collectively across all our sites we do very well from AdSense. Then again, we do have over 300 sites now… :)

Paul

By: gje

gje — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:03:21 +0000

Hi Darren

I have visited it, but not studied it.

By: DarrenC

DarrenC — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:18:14 +0000

I don’t think that the Google Adsense ad was obtrustive, but I’ve gone the same way with only adding small Google Ads within the travel articles [not the blog posts]

What does the Google reader widget do? Have you visited http://wp-plugins.net/ because it has tons of plugins - and i mean TONS!