I am semi-”giving in” on the whole Internet advertisement thing – but not totally. If you’ve been reading my posts with any degree of regularity, you’ll know that I really, really, REALLY don’t like internet advertising, and I go through reasonable lengths to ensure that the ads I see are minimal. However, hosting services do cost money, so putting some ads on verStory seems to be the best option. I just whipped up a quick revenue sharing plugin (however the “sharing” part is still in the works, thus you’ll currently only see Google ads on my blog and not on all hosted verStory blogs). At any rate – I want the authors of the other verStory blogs to also be able to make revenue, so – once complete – the Google ads on verStory will be half verStory ads and half the ads of authors of given blogs. I also want to build in some really good positional configuration, so that users can customize the degree of ad visibility, but we’ll see how things go.

Finally, the only way that I can justify this insertion of ads, is to bring attention (again) to an excellent Firefox plugin that will completely block ads (at least the ones that will be on verStory):

Adblock Plus

Another interesting phenomenon is the monetization that seems to have occurred with WordpressMU in general. As far as I can tell, the site is pretty much useless unless you register for a “premium” account, and most authors of WordpressMU plugins have stopped hosting them and (I assume) joined the WordpressMU “premium” dev team. Whether or not I’ll look into that or simply release my plugin for free once it’s complete, I’m really still not sure.

Anyhow – again – happy New Year, and Season’s Greetings, and whatnot

Atahualpa Theme Download Page

The classic verStory theme (that my blog is currently using as of this writing) is based on, I think, Kubrik, or something like that. When I feel inspired, I’ll probably make up some better images and just switch over to Atahualpa myself. My friend Ekki (ekki.verstory.com) is already using it on her verStory site that’s about climate change and vegan environmentalists, or something.

Also – my birthday is coming soon. Twenty four years on God’s great Earth. Happy birthday, me.