Is Blogging Bad for Your Health?

by Yvonne | April 6th, 2008 @ 4:04pm | Permalink to "Is Blogging Bad for Your Health?" | No Comments

They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.

A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment.

Wow. Digital-era sweatshop. Thanks, New York Times, for the vote of confidence (last I checked, three health incidents in a population of millions did not an epidemic make)!

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Project Wonderful vs. Google Adsense: 6-Week Review

by Yvonne | March 18th, 2008 @ 3:37pm | Permalink to "Project Wonderful vs. Google Adsense: 6-Week Review" | 10 Comments

In the early days of my Project Wonderful trial, a web site owner declared to me that it was far superior to Adsense, which surprised me greatly. For the first few days of my trial, Project Wonderful was breathing down the neck of my Adsense earnings. In the wee hours of the morning on February 5, Project Wonderful took the lead.

And then later that evening, Adsense re-took the lead and proceeded to leave Project Wonderful in the dust.

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Project Wonderful: First Week Review

by Yvonne | February 6th, 2008 @ 10:00pm | Permalink to "Project Wonderful: First Week Review" | 2 Comments

This is the end of my first week as an ad publisher on the Project Wonderful ad network.

It is clearly the ad network for small sites and small publishers. As long as you set a minimum bid of $0.01 for each ad box you put up, it should be pretty easy to to earn at least $0.01 per day per ad box, regardless of the amount of traffic you receive. You can withdraw funds when your account reaches $10, or you can re-route funds from ad publishing into placing ads of your own.

It does take a few days for your ad boxes to become established in the system. Your ad boxes don’t show up in a search until the next day. The average number of page views per day is tracked over the last five days, so if your ad box is less than five days old, you will be averaging in zeroes.

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