Category: blogosphere

dollars and $ense

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A sex-blogger friend ‘o mine needs to get some advertising revenue coming in from her blog; I of course know very little about getting ads set up on a blog, particularly when it’s a blog of the adult variety. Anyone out there know much about this? I have no idea where to get started, between […]

A sex-blogger friend ‘o mine needs to get some advertising revenue coming in from her blog; I of course know very little about getting ads set up on a blog, particularly when it’s a blog of the adult variety.

Anyone out there know much about this? I have no idea where to get started, between the mainstream ad sources (Adsense, the built-in ad system on typepad, etc) and adult ad providers.

I need words of wisdom on where to start with it. Actually getting the ads working is cake, but I dunno where to start with rounding up advertising for a blog with adult content.

No indifference – and now, the sixties

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I have to give ChelseaGirl some deep, wet kisses for pointing me to this site; the oddly named gentle indifference. “A compact disc-length compilation of relevant music from each calendar year dating back to 1960. Updated every Monday.” I just pulled down 1968: 1. All Along The Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix – 4:00 2. White […]

I have to give ChelseaGirl some deep, wet kisses for pointing me to this site; the oddly named gentle indifference.

“A compact disc-length compilation of relevant music from each calendar year dating back to 1960. Updated every Monday.”

I just pulled down 1968:

1. All Along The Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix – 4:00
2. White Room – Cream – 4:57
3. Piece Of My Heart – Big Brother & The Holding Co – 4:14
4. I Say A Little Prayer For You – Aretha Franklin – 3:36
5. The Way Young Lovers Do – Van Morrison – 3:18
6. I Heard it Thru Grapevine – Marvin Gaye – 3:10
7. I Wish It Would Rain – Temptations – 2:53
8. The Weight – The Band – 4:33
9. Mrs. Robinson – Simon and Garfunkel – 3:50
10. Stand By Your Man – Tammy Wynette – 2:41
11. Israelites – Desmond Dekker – 2:36
12. Say It Loud, I’m Black And I’m Proud – James Brown – 3:02
13. Everyday People – Sly and the Family Stone – 2:22
14. Days – The Kinks – 2:52
15. For Once in My Life – Stevie Wonder – 2:50
16. La La Means I Love You – Delfonics – 3:23
17. Crimson and Clover – Tommy James & The Shondells – 5:28
18. With A Little Help From My Friends – Joe Cocker – 4:55
19. Jumping Jack Flash – The Rolling Stones – 3:44
20. Hey Jude – The Beatles – 7:02
21. (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay – Otis Redding – 2:45

Which you can download here (Sorry, it’s sendspace – i don’t like sendspace but these mixes make it worth the trouble).

Even if you don’t download them, these are fantastic playlists. They’re pretty much all must-have songs from each year.

I’ve got bza’s mixes from 1970-1973, and just pulled down ’66-69. And I have to say, to a one they’re all brilliant. Alas, he doesn’t keep the others available for download so I can’t get the post-73 ones; I’d love to see what he’s got for the late ’70s and the 80s. But oh-my-god are the ones I have great. Keep on going, bza, these fuckin’ rule.

Bleeding Edge – MT 3.3 Beta 2

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I just upgraded my MT install to MT 3.3 Beta 2. Which isn’t, I guess, truly bleeding edge, but I like the phrase bleeding edge. If anyone has troubles, let me know. This new MT version has some cool features, I’m only just starting to play with them.

I just upgraded my MT install to MT 3.3 Beta 2. Which isn’t, I guess, truly bleeding edge, but I like the phrase bleeding edge.

If anyone has troubles, let me know. This new MT version has some cool features, I’m only just starting to play with them.

MT 3.3 beta

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Update – The MT 3.3 Beta has been released. I encourage MT users to get on board and help test – I’d like to see this release go GA shortly, it’s got some REALLY cool features. I’m not planning to upgrade this-here space yet (not ’til they get to at least beta version 2 or […]

Update – The MT 3.3 Beta has been released.

I encourage MT users to get on board and help test – I’d like to see this release go GA shortly, it’s got some REALLY cool features. I’m not planning to upgrade this-here space yet (not ’til they get to at least beta version 2 or 3), but it’s looking pretty solid in my beta-testing blog and I’ve seen no major bugs yet.

SixApart are about to start a beta test of Movable Type 3.3.

The plan as of now is to install that here – maybe not the day it comes out, but shortly after. I’ll likely (If I have time) install 3.3 as a separate installation first to drive it around and see what’s different. If any of you-all who have m’sphere blogs are interested, I’ll point you to it.

I have not seen a change list to see what they’ve added, but I’m hoping it’s 1) good stuff and 2) doesn’t break anything.

While I think MT is the best bloging platform out there, I’m not sure how confident I am in SixApart these days; they seem like they’re letting things get away from them on TypePad and of course they’re spending cycles supporting LiveJournal, which is possibly the worst blogging platform around, if the one with the largest customer base. I’m hoping they get control of that shortly.

Blogrolling is down, down down

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Blogrolling is down today, for those who use it. http://news.blogrolling.com/blog/_archives/2006/6/5/2008115.html Please note that blogrolling.com is curerntly down for maintenance reasons. We have been experiencing technical issues with the database and have to take down the entire service in order to repair the problem in a quick fashion. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have […]

Blogrolling is down today, for those who use it.

http://news.blogrolling.com/blog/_archives/2006/6/5/2008115.html

Please note that blogrolling.com is curerntly down for maintenance reasons. We have been experiencing technical issues with the database and have to take down the entire service in order to repair the problem in a quick fashion.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Seems like it’s back, finally. I’m no big fan of blogrolling but it’s still the only one that does ‘recently updated’ links correctly. For everything else, MTBlogRolling is a better choice.

thanks, CG

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The lovely and talented ChelseaGirl pointed some of her fleshbotty traffic my way with a link; only I’ve not had much to say lately. If you folks got here following her link, go look here for my small catalog of written expression. — …And now CG’s entry on writing has been picked up by (the […]

The lovely and talented ChelseaGirl pointed some of her fleshbotty traffic my way with a link; only I’ve not had much to say lately.

If you folks got here following her link, go look here for my small catalog of written expression.

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…And now CG’s entry on writing has been picked up by (the lovely and talented) Bacchus from Erosblog, and so I’m getting even more hits. So if you’re looking for the story CG mentioned, that’s here, in it’s pre-edit form; the erotic novella Wanton.

So thanks Bacchus as well as CG!

I Have No Mouth, and I Must…

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Evidently I’ve not only stopped blogging but stopped communicating almost completely. Even my mother just asked me if she’d pissed me off, and she’s never said anything like that to me, ever. I’m certain there’s a list of people who are likewise wondering if I’m angry, or who are angry with me. Mea Culpa. I’m […]

Evidently I’ve not only stopped blogging but stopped communicating almost completely. Even my mother just asked me if she’d pissed me off, and she’s never said anything like that to me, ever. I’m certain there’s a list of people who are likewise wondering if I’m angry, or who are angry with me.

Mea Culpa. I’m sorry. It’s been a weird week or so. I’m trying to settle down and write something, anything. The words slip through my grasping fingers like eels.

He is called the human nest-egg
Is known as Prince of Leaves
He is hidden now but you can see
The bubbles where he breathes
He has mastered all the hard things
And is difficult to shock
Has a muscle on the bottom
Which attaches him to the rocks
     –Shriekback, New Man

blog break

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I didn’t really plan it but I seem to have taken some sort of break from blogging. I look back at my last couple weeks of entries and find that even though there are a few posts, they’re free of content. And since last weekend I’ve had nothing whatsoever to say, not even able to […]

I didn’t really plan it but I seem to have taken some sort of break from blogging. I look back at my last couple weeks of entries and find that even though there are a few posts, they’re free of content. And since last weekend I’ve had nothing whatsoever to say, not even able to write apart from a couple current-eventss notes.

I don’t know if this is the end of taking a break or just the beginning. But I know I still have nothing to say.

So. Let’s just call this a blog break and see what happens.

Cats foot iron claw
Neuro-surgeons scream for more
At paranoias poison door.
Twenty first century schizoid man.

Blood rack barbed wire
Polititians funeral pyre
Innocents raped with napalm fire
Twenty first century schizoid man.

Death seed blind mans greed
Poets starving children bleed
Nothing hes got he really needs
Twenty first century schizoid man.

more happy

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Happy Birthday to m’man Ray. Love ya like a brother, man. Have a good day. Eat until you fuckin’ bust.

Happy Birthday to m’man Ray.

Love ya like a brother, man. Have a good day. Eat until you fuckin’ bust.

Happy Birthday

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Because I’m just that sort of friend, Doxy, I forgot yesterday was your birthday. I keep tellin’ people, I’m an asshole. Anyway, a big moronosphere shout-out to Doxy. Happy Birthday, baby. You seem to have stopped blogging again, but I’m hope you’re havin’ a fine ol’ day of it. It also seems to be Gina’s […]

Because I’m just that sort of friend, Doxy, I forgot yesterday was your birthday.

I keep tellin’ people, I’m an asshole.

Anyway, a big moronosphere shout-out to Doxy. Happy Birthday, baby. You seem to have stopped blogging again, but I’m hope you’re havin’ a fine ol’ day of it.

It also seems to be Gina’s (mrs Ray) birthday.

So mid-april spankings all round.