Typically, this is the time I start most of my blogs (10-11pm), but tonight is a little different. Tomorrow I don’t have work, hence I am not fretting being tired after writing this blog and taking care of some other pressing items.
Why do not I have work? Because next week I start my new job at Yardbarker.com and last Friday was my last day at SugarCRM. With one week of freedom sandwiched in between, I am tentatively calling this next week Summer of Ben (Seinfeld reference)
Video of Baron Davis on Yardbarker talking about his Yardbarker blog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyZhu9Jm5-I&hl=en&fs=1
Anyways wanted to share some interesting tidbits on my new gig.
It was two weeks back, I was faced with the question PC or Mac for my new computer. Although my desktop at home is Mac and my phone is an Iphone, my work computer has always been a PC.
Hmmmm. Could I fully adopt Macs, despite years of doing all work functions on the PC? I wrestled with this decision for about 2 seconds before I replied back requesting a Mac. I am sure there will be a couple of bumps in the road, but for now I must say I am ecstatic that today I became the new user of a Macbook.
In other news, today I was discussing various blogging platforms in a informal meeting when I was told wordpress.com hosted blogs do not allow advertisements on them. This was news to me, and unfortunately my blog is hosted by wordpress.com.
Recently someone inquired about selling ads on my blog, something I was looking to do very soon. The WordPress.com/Automatic policy is known, but is not exactly advertised during the sign up process.
While a majority of wordpress users may not want to place advertisements on their blogs, the option to do so would enable the minority of bloggers the ability to make some extra cash. WordPress is such a great tool with such a large community, there has to be hundreds of thousands of users who find themselves locked out of using advertising tools despite an interest to do so.
Matt Mullenweg and Toni Schneider have both indicated that this issue maybe revisited and I sincerely hope they see the light. Blogs and new media in general are steadily gaining traction in the mainstream as viable media outlets. Not having advertising enabled, will cost Automatic/Wordpress.com a large contingent of users who hope to augment their income with advertising revenue. I know I might be going out on a limb here, but I am pretty sure bloggers are people too…. and people typically like money.
I hope there is movement soon on this front, as every day I go without advertisements is another day that I am postponing retirement. One can wish.
