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Google AdSense Where Are My Channels? 2007-10-24 17:22:33 The Advanced report too does not show proper channel information. They have not even posted any clarifications about this issue on their AdSense blog. What’s up Google? Below is a screenshot of how my reporting looks taking at 12 PM EST today.   Are you facing a similar problems with your AdSense reports? Do let me know through your comments. I would also like to know whether you use AdSense channels to tweak your Ads for better performance. Technorati tags: Google AdSense, AdSense Channels, Missing AdSense Channels, No Channels Copyright © 2007 Techie Buzz. All rights reserved. From:Techie Buzz ... Adsense  Google

Don’t Want a PR Hit, Follow This Fool Proof Trick 2007-10-24 16:31:51 There have been lots of the PR drops have been overdone all over the Blogosphere and to which Maki from Dosh Dosh said that Google Page Rank does not matter and having an alternative is the right way to go about it. Here is a fool proof alternative beyond the nofollow option which will ensure your Google PR does not drop and you keep your advertisers happy with links to them. The trick is to redirect the site that you advertise using an internal redirecting service on your site and using robots to disallow access to the folder the redirect script resides in. This will ensure that Google does not follow paid links on your site. Well nofollow does the same thing? Why this? Google does not want to have paid results which spam search engine results in their site, so it is better to abide by those terms since most of the sites receive most of the traffic from Google. Would Advertisers Oblige? Will Search Engine Penalize You? This will neither affect yours as well as the advertisers sites an ...

Waiting for PR rise? Google does a U-turn 2007-10-24 13:49:28 Many of us have been waiting for that elusive PR update which would push our PR up, but what happens Google does a U-turn and drops the page rank of most of the top sites. There has been a considerable drop for many sites and this is because they are selling paid links. Here are some of the top sites that lost their PR courtesy Daily Blog Tips. Engadget (from 7 to 5) AutoBlog (from 6 to 4) Problogger (from 6 to 4) Copyblogger (from 6 to 4) Search Engine Journal (from 7 to 4) Quick Online Tips (from 6 to 3) Search Engine Roundtable (from 7 to 4) Blog Herald (from 6 to 4) Weblog Tools Collection (from 6 to 4) JohnTP (from 6 to 4) Coolest Gadgets (from 5 to 3) Washington Post (from 7 to 5) Washington Times (from 6 to 4) Charlotte Observer (from 6 to 4) Forbes.com (from 7 to 5) SFGate.com (from 7 to 5) Sun Times (from 7 to 5) New Scientist (from 7 to 5) Seattle Times (from 6 to 4) John Chow also seems to have dropped PR from 5 to 4. Though many Google data centers show di ... Google

Just Another Reason To Dislike Carl Edwards 2007-10-24 01:13:11 As you know, in the past I’ve really haven’t been a fan of Carl Edwards. I even have stated that his “Ah Shucks” demeanor hasn’t fooled me a bit and, after seeing the video of him confronting Matt Kenseth, I am reaffirmed in my belief that Carl isn’t as nice as people think he is. Just watch the video. I don’t think they were foolin’ around. Look at the fear in Kenseth’s eyes, and the self-satisfying sneer on Edwards’ face after he raises his closed fist at Kenseth in an intimidating fashion which resulted in Matt cringing away. Hey Carl, how many Championships have you won? Um … let me count … just a sec … looking it up … hang in there … got it, got it … oh here it is! NONE! How many has Kenseth won? One more than you. Who do you think Jack Roush is going to keep if this keeps up? Thinking you? Then you are thinking wrong. You’re going to find yourself driving Truck again faster ...

Information, Students & Digital Ethnography 2007-10-23 22:42:25 A few months ago a video called The Machine is Us/ing Us by Michael Wesch and his Digital Ethnography Group from Kansas State University attracted a lot of attention for its innovative and engaging presentation of some of the core features of "social software". Another couple of videos from the same group have appeared recently: one (Information R/evolution) on shifts in approaches to information discovery, classification and distribution, and the second (A Vision of Students Today) on student perceptions of teaching and the use of technology in teaching. The second video seems to have inspired differing interpretations in weblog commentaries and in the comments posted to YouTube. Wesch responds to this reaction in a post in which he explains that these two videos were intended to form a sequence, the first two parts of a trilogy, moving from examining the current "information environment" in which students (and teachers) operate and some of the methods and techn ... Amp

John Force, Greg Biffle, and Carl Edwards in eBay Celebrity Auction? 2007-10-23 18:35:07 I don’t usually like promoting eBay related stuff on my site, but this is worth posting and I urge all of you bloggers out there to copy this in its entirety and place it on your site (no need to give reference to me either - the cause outweighs any the form of plagiarism in my opinion), or link to it, or if you are not a blogger then email the links to your friends. I was recently contacted by a representative of the Ford Motor Company to see if I would be willing to promote their ‘Warriors in Pink’ campaign, and after reading what he had to say, I am.Warriors In PinkThis year’s Warriors In Pink campaign has enlisted celebrities to join Ford in the fight against breast cancer by signing and decorating mini Warriors in Pink 1/18th scale model Mustangs to be auctioned off on eBay for breast cancer research with all proceeds benefiting Susan G. Komen for the Cure.For more info on the auction, which ends on Oct.25th, go to www.ebay.com/warriorsinpink. In addition t ...

Active Learning - Creating Meaningful Artifacts 2007-10-23 17:52:53 Assisting students to create meaningful artifacts is the third approach to active learning. Artifacts are concrete objects that students design, create and share with others. The concept of creating meaningful artifacts of student learning originates from the theory of Constructionism originally advocated by Seymour Papert of the MIT Media Lab. http://cyberartsweb.org/cpace/ht/thonglipfei/construction.html This article will discuss the following two types of artifacts. 1. Personal Artifacts 2. Learning Artifacts Websites: Student projects and essays can be posted on a group website where they can be shared. In the following examples, papers from a graduate class from 1997 – Present are publicly available http://www.usask.ca/education/coursework/802papers/ Blogs: A Blog is an online journal where class reflections/articles can be posted and commented on. Blogs can be private to a specific class or public. For examples see http://www2.med.umich.edu/medschool/reality/ or http://medical ...

Profile Your Web Site With BuiltWith.com 2007-10-23 12:56:53 Many of the users that run blogs and websites do not have in depth of what their site is built with. Information such as which software is running the website, what is the server etc are long forgotten once a site is up and running. Many a users are really not concerned about it and usually believe what their hosting providers tell them. This does not matter to most but think when you want to start looking out for a new host, you would like to check that they have similar features. But as a lay user how will you be able to find that out? Well let’s put the worries aside Builtwith.com is a site that tells you what your web site is built on, generating a profiling report on your site which contains the following information about your website. Built with helps you profile any website providing you with information about what a site is built with, how it runs, what runs it and much more. Here are the key areas that built with provides information about which is quite useful and you ...

Create SEO Friendly URL’s Using Mod Rewrite and PHP - Part 1 2007-10-23 10:56:48 http://www.yoursite.com/product.php?productid=2&categoryid=3. It is hard even for a human to tell what the product is by looking at this URL. With the trick we will use the final URL can look something like this http://www.yoursite.com/product/13/3/2-GB-MP3-player.html. What is Mod Rewrite? According to Wikipedia A rewrite engine is a piece of web server software used to modify URLs before fetching the requested item, for a variety of purposes. This technique is known as URL rewriting. Some benefits derived from a rewrite engine are: Making website URLs more user and search engine friendly Preventing undesired "inline linking" or "hot linking" Not exposing the (web address-related) inner workings of a website to users RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^article/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/(.*?).html$ /article.php?articleid=$1&categoryid=$2 RewriteEngine on This line tells the web server that we will be rewriting the URL’s otherwise it may start throwing 40 ...

RDFa Syntax Working Draft published 2007-10-22 15:58:30 The W3C announced at the weekend the availability of a new working draft titled RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing. The document has been produced jointly by the Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and the XHTML 2 Working Group. The current draft is a syntax specification, so is a fairly technical document, but a Primer is also available, and that provides a more "scenario-oriented" discussion of possible uses of RDFa (I think at the moment the Primer document is still a pre-publication "Editor’s Draft", so still work in progress and liable to change). The movement of RDFa towards a stable W3C specification raises the question of, given the availability of microformats (at least some of which are already GRDDL-enabled, I think), the capacity to define a new GRDDL-able markup convention, existing generalised GRDDL-enabled conventions such as Embedded RDF, and now RDFa, which is the most appropriate method for embedding structured data in XHTML? And I’ ...

Getting Rid of Errors After Upgrading to WordPress 2.3 2007-10-22 11:24:16 WordPress database error: [Table wp_categories doesn’t exist] SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC How do I resolve this? WordPress 2.3 no longer uses categories but has shifted to the more popular Tags which allows users to tag their content verses the usual categorization. For this as a flashback you can have a look at what Gmail did to folders with labels. Gmail does not have any folders as such but they have labels which allow you to tag mails. Essentially it works like folders itself but physically your mail does not reside in any folder like the other Email providers have for example Yahoo and Windows Live Hotmail. The problem with categories was that each post was tied down to a particular category (or more than one categories) itself and like folders it could not be used or accessed outside that particular folder. With tags no post is tied down to a category in fact its vice versa a tag is tied to a post. You can easily move a post around without havin ...

No Martinsville Malice For Newman 2007-10-22 04:38:52 In case you missed it, Ryan Newman made a hard charge near the end of the Martinsville race and shoved Jeff Gordon out of the way to do it. I bet if he caught Jimmie he would have done the same too.Do I object to this? No. Just because these guys, Gordon and Johnson, are racing for the Championship does not mean they should be treated any differently than the others on the track. It is a race after all, not two races on the same track, and everyone is fighting for a win or, for some, a ride or sponsor for next year as well as to stay in the top 35. The Chace drivers are not untouchables and should not be treated as such. They are just another car to pass on the track. Period.Newman stated that he was not going to change his driving style for Chasers such as Gordon and Johnson.“In my opinion I’m a championship driver and just because I had some bad luck this year doesn’t mean I should change the way I race for guys that are going for the Cup,” he said.Apparently ...

Google Atrocities and Plagiarism Train 2007-10-21 22:06:31 How many of you have your content plagiarized and have seen those sites running Google AdSense. It hurts isn’t it. It hurt me a lot when the site that plagiarized my content was sitting two positions above me in Google Search Results, it hurts more then when your hard work is stolen. Google is penalizing us for selling paid links, what about those people who make money out of Google from your hard earned work, is there a solution to that no? They go around penalizing people who want to earn money but not those who make money of your own hard work. Google Search penalizes you for having duplicate content but not those sites that copy your content, so you have to be aware of not duplicating your content but plagiarizing can go for a toss. How many of you face this problem and how many has Google rectified till now, will you drop your paid links when Google itself is paying for content that is being stolen from your site? The sites that steal my content are (please do not link just ... Google

Coming Soon: Browse Internet Without Booting Up Your OS 2007-10-21 03:34:00 This is one innovation that has to termed as one of the best till date. ASUS a company that manufactures Mother Boards have come up with a unique motherboard that allows you to browse the Internet and use the Skype IM client without even having to boot up your PC. Yes so the next time you want to use the Internet to check your email or view Videos on YouTube, or check out a Map before you leave for your destination you can do it in 5 seconds without even having to boot up your operating system. The new innovation is called FlashTop and it resides over the top of your regular Boot screen allowing you the choice to quickly browse the Internet or simply boot into your operating system. This is part of the new P5E3 Deluxe/WiFi-AP motherboard created by ASUS. CNet has a very nice review of the Webware PC. The possibilities are endless with this innovation, imagine if you use Google Docs and Spreadsheets and quickly want to send a document to a friend, using FlashTop you can quickly and easi ... Internet

Pop!Tech - Dialog with/in Islam 2007-10-20 23:38:17 The internet has made another sort of communication possible - physical borders aren’t the only important ones anymore. Kuttab started AMIN - Arabic Media Internet Network - to take advantage of these capabilities. The word “amin” means truth in arabic, and the ability to read newspapers from other countries is a great way to seek truth from other nations. The network, founded in 1996, had a lot of problems with technology, since it was at that point very difficult to represent Arabic on the web - instead, they generally posted scans of pages and kept them up for a few days. While AMIN was important for people in urban areas who were literate, the majority of people in the Arab world live outside the capitals, where radio and television is king. “We were cursed in the Arab countries - when radio was in its golden age, in the Arab world, the radio station is the first place the coup plotters go.” As a result, radio stations are considered very important mil ...