monetisation - end of

So as you will have seen, I no longer have ads on my blog. I felt it was a valid experiment but they are ugly and while clearly I never expected at all to make serious profits the amount of money generated was tiny.* All I really want is readers, and even then only because I am a writer, not because I have something super-important to say, and I think the ads probably detract from people hanging around to read (unless they are really immune to them). I think I also kind of suspect that the ads make the blog look like it's not actually active anymore, which I suppose most blogs aren't.   

So that's that. 

I'll still give money to Save the Bilby. 

*And it did not increase the amount of traffic here. 

halloween

Woy Woy a couple of weeks ago. 

the monetisation experiment

 

The impact on my blog of the adsense ads is just so ugly that I am blown away by it. I am 99% certain that I will end the experiment in a few days (so far I have earned around 1c from it, and that is not an exaggeration). Even if the rewards were, you know, a dollar a day I don't think I could hack it. (If the rewards were ten dollars a day, well, I'd leave this blog to its own devices for a couple of years to just earn money for itself and write a novel or something instead). 

more ryan - episode 21, first aired 13 october 1973

 

No huge anything to say here just wanted to celebrate once again the great supporting cast that the Crawfords shows drew together in the 60s and 70s such as the redoubtable Syd Conabere who shows up repeatedly in different shows and is here playing... god, I am not even sure, some man called Jacob Jones who faked his own death to protect his daughter from the 'syndicate' - ? I wasn't paying enough attention but I was pleased to see him. The daughter in question ('Anastasia') was played by Sally Conabere. Some relation? Well, I don't know for certain.* 

SC was born in 1918 so was 55 here. He died in 2008. His wife Betty was in eight Crawfords episodes in the early 70s. 

* Don't write in and complain, of course I do. 

the great australian bite

So I don't think I've mentioned that lately I've been watching Ryan, the Rod Mullinar private detective show which also has Pamela Stephenson in it. I'll tell you more about it sometime. But right now I just want to fill you in on an episode (Episode 21) I've been looking at in which a lot of the action centres around a locale about two minutes' walk from where I live, notably at a restaurant called The Great Australian Bite. It was on the corner of Molesworth St and, I guess, Harker St (though that corner seems to be exactly the spot where Harker becomes Curzon). 

Molesworth, looking south. 

Looking down Curzon. 

I think this is the interior of the Great Australian Bite, but maybe not. It's surely not a set. 

The actual establishment. Sometime soon I'll show you what it looks like today. 

Cornelia Frances in Harker st

And the flats across the street. So that's about it. Oh, except here's an ad. 

monetising

So I decided I would open an adsense account for this blog and see what happened. A few thoughts were had over this. But the bottom line is I get ads all the time when I read things online (eg newspapers I subscribe to, magazines ditto) and while I don't love it, nor do I despise it. The other things is that while I don't expect to make any big $$ - I'm sure if anything it'll be a pittance - I was intrigued when I saw that, when I was in Finland two months ago, my Finnish readership really picked up. Not people reading about Finnish things but surely people in Finland being recommended things by the algorithm because I was nearby. Well, maybe the algorithm will be inspired by $$ to push my product more widely. In the unlikely event I make any money I will give it to charity (probably international wildlife fund) but writers need to be read and I want eyes on my little pearls of wisdom. You understand that, don't you?* 

Now, here's the first of a few pictures from our Sydney/Woy Woy trip on the weekend. 

*OK so I now see what it looks like and I don't necessarily like it very much. I'll give it a couple of weeks just as an experiment but at first glance I feel I am demeaning us all.