With Google announcing the public availability (sort of) of a beta of Google Adsense for Feeds, it's time to revisit advertising on blogs. I've seen quite a few discussions about advertisements in RSS feeds lately, and I'm wondering something. Does an ad… more »

Jim Becher, a good friend of mine, is now podcasting. He's talking about technology and different places to go around Grand Rapids. He's also playing music from local bands. For his first podcast, it's very good. If you're from the Grand Rapids area, gi… more »

I pulled together a new site design again. This time, I'm much happier with the outcome. The skin is based on the LuxInterior skin for Community Server, which of course I'm not running. But I was able to modify it to work with b2evolution. I did more tha… more »

I was mentioned on the May 3rd episode of Jason Salas' Digital Pontifications! Thanks Jason. I appreciate the mention. If you haven't listened, you should give it a go. He says he doesn't have a very good radio voice, but that was one of the things I lik… more »

BusinessWeek has a cover article on blogging this week. It's available online, and it's a pretty good read. But, am I the only one who thought it was odd that the timeline was in chronological order instead of reverse chronological order, like a blog is?… more »

Having your site deleted is interesting. It was deleted on Tuesday, while I was at work (by my wife), and I had it back up Tuesday night. Throughout the week, I checked my Google rank, and it said there wasn't enough information to generate a page rank.… more »

This looks promising. It's a search engine for podcasts. It looks like they only launched on April 18th. I wonder how many podcasts they are crawling, and what they are using to "listen" to them. They have a blog, so maybe they'll start letting us in on… more »

The other day, when my wife updated our personal site through Front Page, it decided that my subfolder that holds all files for my domain (rosscode.com) needed to be deleted. It took me a little while to realize, since I have been too busy with work and… more »

A few days ago, Yahoo released their first beta of thier blogging service: Yahoo 360. Tom over at WebFeedCentral was kind enough to send me an invite, and I signed up. Thanks Tom! So far, I'm not terribly impressed. To even view the blog, you have to be… more »

Yesterday I posted about a blogging expert who said he doesn't see the point of RSS. Well, today he visited my site, and commented, saying I fell for his bait. He was looking for someone to "expose the truth." His comments were pretty nice, considering m… more »