"Why am I all of a sudden seeing so many ads on your site Patrick?"
Update: November 30, 2025
Well, after the initial experiment with AdSense I decided to leave Google Inc. pretty much in full control and give them a free hand as to where the advertisements would be placed. Slowly over time, the number of ads,and strange choices of positioning within articles has gotten out of hand. Today however I put a rather strict limit on the number of ads displayed. This may be shooting myself in the foot but in order to keep the site readable and loading material quickly it was necessary.
With Artificial Intelligence changing the landscape of the Internet so rapidly now the old rules of advertising and indeed the creation of original content have gone straight out the door. Let me know if the site is more useful to you.
By the way, there is more new content coming. Several articles are in production 😉
As always please continue to provide feedback and have a great day.
January 8, 2023:
For the next 90 days, since the beginning of January 2023, we are running an experiment in the hopes of finding the right balance between ads (a.k.a. revenue) and the amount of visitors. In short I am trying to strike a balance in the only way to do that is to run an experiment in which a certain number of visitors will see very few or no ads at all and other visitors will see a sliding scale.
There is so much information out there and a lot of it is contradictory regarding advertising benefits. I am also exploring other avenues of bringing you information by using some old technology in new ways. Namely the good old RSS feed (Really Simple Syndication) mechanism. All Google products, including the blogger still generate RSS for software that wants to use it. However Windows 10 and 11 don't natively support the protocol anymore which is a shame because it means you have to acquire software to benefit from the feed. That's not hard to do there's lots of software and app still out there. But who wants to download software off the Internet now days? (See the article I posted for more information on that topic.)
Things are continuing to evolve on this site daily, and I'm really looking forward to this week's upcoming adventure (see:Voice assistances and disability) as I assist someone else with their voice assistant technology.
Take care Patrick
