SF Skyline shown with permission by photographer Lane Hartwell 

Archive for March, 2005


Turning AdSense Into AdThousands?

A couple weeks ago I was invited to Google HQ to attend their first AdSense Publishers Forum. It was very worthwhile.
Dogster and Catster together serve roughly 6 million AdSense ad sets a month. We generate ~ $900/mo. (They just updated their terms to allow publishers to discuss their results and I think the more [...]

Interview And Nice Write-Up In SFist.com

A couple months ago the SFist (San Francisco’s great replicant of NYC’s Gothamist.com) asked to interview me. Having lived in San Francisco since 1992 it was a real honor, and chore to try and express why San Francisco, a town I thought I’d weather out the early 90’s recession, turned into a city I [...]

WordPress Grows Up Before Our Eyes

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Big congrats to Matt Mullenweg and the entire WordPress development community. In just a month there have already been 100,000+ downloads of the newest version (1.5) of their great open source blogging software.
I first starting using WordPress (v1.01) in February of ‘04 for Dogster’s Site Updates. In fact it’s the only 3rd party [...]