Less than a week later edit: OK, so it doesn’t take Google a week to get back to you. Now I just have to play around with their ad options.
Afternoon edit: OK, so the first thing I have learned is that it takes a week for Google to approve me to host their ads. We’ll see… check back in a week if you’re desperate to see an ad in a blog.
META BORING BLOG STUFF
This Blog, in case I have been too subtle (Ha, I kill me*), is partially a bit of my life as related to my schooling at the Virginia Commonwealth University.
Now that I work for VCU, I have gone from being a full time student in the Media Art and Text Ph.D. program, to being a part-time student in same.
As part of my part timeness, I consider my entire web presence to be divided between my personal life, my public life, my school life and my teaching life.
Thus, I am trying an experiment. Wordpress informs me that the most popular plug-in for Wordpress is Google’s Ad-Sense.
While I am now of the not at all original feeling that Amazon and Google were at one time SOOOO cool, but are now The Man. Or is that Men? I still want to try out things in case my students want to try out things so that I can perhaps save them the trouble or make a million dollars, whichever comes first.
And hey, if you’re not seeing any ads, that probably means I wasn’t smart enough to figure out how to set Google’s Ad-Sense up, or Google didn’t deem me worthy. Either result is fine with me.
Now, if I can only find a way to make Amazon also my best friend. Anyone have its number?
* Oh, and I wanted to give props to Scott Adams of Dilbert Fame for the line: “I kill me”, when referring to a joke told by oneself that isn’t really funny, but does make one laugh. In this case, the one is me. I suppose it’s always me when one is saying one, but that also sounds weird. Mr. Adams (soooooo my hero for the creation of Wally, all that is right in the attitude department), used that line in the introduction to one of his books. I hesitate to even mention his name here. I’m not worthy.