Compound Cal has just bought us another year of domain registration, another year where collegemisery.com will whisk anyone right to this site (which is actually just a Blogger page, collegemisery.blogspot.com).
How he had the $12 to do this, we'll never know. But we are grateful nonetheless!
Thanks, Cal! Always nice to save a few keystrokes. Besides, being a .com makes us official and reliable and all that, right? At least some of my students seem to think so (but this site might challenge that worldview should they stumble upon it).
Full disclosure. I started CM last year, and inherited a lot of the blogging structure from Cal, who of course ran RYS for a number of years. 3?
Anyway, RYS donated any profits from ads to the American Red Cross, and when money started to come in for CM - and it is literally pennies a day - I did the same thing.
The original RYS moderator passed that notion along to whoever followed him, and then to Cal, and then to me. And when I corresponded with Gordon Presto about it, I passed along the suggestion.
I've always enjoyed the Amazon ads, even though almost no money is generated that way. I love Prof. Presto's "Elvis theme" currently running.
I didn't want to talk much about the money because it's so little, and I followed Cal's lead just because it made me feel good personally. Perhaps the American Red Cross wouldn't have been my individual choice, but I appreciated the sort of generic and all purpose quality of that organization.
If Gordon wants to weigh in, I hope he does. It does make sense to me to use any profits to pay for the domain name, but that cost is tiny, too.
Oh, and nearly all of those blurry graphics in the post above were created by Cal. I'm enraged that Gordon didn't choose to share some of the my wondrous - yet still blurry - creations!
I'm doing what Fab did, and what Cal did before in the last years at RYS.
Yesterday, for example, ads generated 67 cents. It's never much, but I also personally like the idea of turning whatever it ends up being to something like the Red Cross.
If CM community members disagree with this unofficial policy, please let me know.
And I'm so glad Fab noticed the Elvis tribute. I know the old RYS moderators had a Britney Spears fixation, and now I've revealed mine, I guess.
Future Amazon themed ads will include blog specific interests like water pipes and drink recipe guides.
I like that our pittance goes to the Red Cross. And while I had noticed that the ads tended to be about education, I thought that was just Blogspot tailoring ads to the education theme of CM. Now I'm going to be paying more attention to the Amazon ads.
Will there be any on Basketweaving? Hamster fur? Snowglobes? Douchebags?
Thanks, Cal! Always nice to save a few keystrokes. Besides, being a .com makes us official and reliable and all that, right? At least some of my students seem to think so (but this site might challenge that worldview should they stumble upon it).
ReplyDeleteDoesn't our site get some sort of revenue from ads? Or does that not work since there are only 4 of us working out of our Ohio Miami dorms?
ReplyDeleteFull disclosure. I started CM last year, and inherited a lot of the blogging structure from Cal, who of course ran RYS for a number of years. 3?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, RYS donated any profits from ads to the American Red Cross, and when money started to come in for CM - and it is literally pennies a day - I did the same thing.
The original RYS moderator passed that notion along to whoever followed him, and then to Cal, and then to me. And when I corresponded with Gordon Presto about it, I passed along the suggestion.
I've always enjoyed the Amazon ads, even though almost no money is generated that way. I love Prof. Presto's "Elvis theme" currently running.
I didn't want to talk much about the money because it's so little, and I followed Cal's lead just because it made me feel good personally. Perhaps the American Red Cross wouldn't have been my individual choice, but I appreciated the sort of generic and all purpose quality of that organization.
If Gordon wants to weigh in, I hope he does. It does make sense to me to use any profits to pay for the domain name, but that cost is tiny, too.
Oh, and nearly all of those blurry graphics in the post above were created by Cal. I'm enraged that Gordon didn't choose to share some of the my wondrous - yet still blurry - creations!
ReplyDeleteI'm doing what Fab did, and what Cal did before in the last years at RYS.
ReplyDeleteYesterday, for example, ads generated 67 cents. It's never much, but I also personally like the idea of turning whatever it ends up being to something like the Red Cross.
If CM community members disagree with this unofficial policy, please let me know.
And I'm so glad Fab noticed the Elvis tribute. I know the old RYS moderators had a Britney Spears fixation, and now I've revealed mine, I guess.
Future Amazon themed ads will include blog specific interests like water pipes and drink recipe guides.
Red Cross! I love it!
ReplyDeleteHey Cal! That $12 could be like a bowl that you don't smoke or somethin'.
ReplyDeleteI'd share some of my stash with you, but 'ya know, the whole anonymity thing...
Thanks, Cal! If you're ever in my Rustbelt neck of the woods, the first beer's on me.
ReplyDeleteHi Fab!
Thanks, Cal!
ReplyDeleteI like that our pittance goes to the Red Cross. And while I had noticed that the ads tended to be about education, I thought that was just Blogspot tailoring ads to the education theme of CM. Now I'm going to be paying more attention to the Amazon ads.
Will there be any on Basketweaving? Hamster fur? Snowglobes? Douchebags?
Amazon has an astounding number of relevant products:
ReplyDelete"basketweaving": 28 results
"hamster fur": 70 results
"douchebags": 156 results
"smackdown": 1,387 results
"snowglobes": 2,360 results
"snowflake": 52,996 results
BUT
'Your search "gumdrop unicorn" did not match any products.'
Presto change-o! Duly noted with peals of laughter.
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