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I’m going to Vegas! Hope the US Embassy cooperates. If anyone wants to sponsor me, I’ll be glad to give you a PR9 link :)
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Whoa. Look at this ad unit.

Click to zoom.

I guess now there’s no doubt that blending images close to AdSense units is an effective click magnet. Is AdSense adding that feature directly into the ad creation console? Google must be working double time to reach/surpass financial targets this quarter. This feature screams: I want more click profit.

Update: Guess this was first spotted waaaaaaay before this post by JenSense. Now you know how long I’ve been gone :)

Ana Marie Cox captures the true essence of blogging. It’s not links, news, blogrolls, shoutboxes….it’s opinions.

I think that’s what most bloggers would consider successful (”to get plucked from the blogosphere and given a column”). I don’t think that. I think that blogging as a medium is just that. It’s a medium. And it has a very low bar to entry. But the reason why anyone does it, I think, has to do with, like, having an opinion you believe is worth other people hearing, and having something to say beyond to the three or four people you talk to every day. And I think that’s why people get into journalism.

Apologies if this blog post contains no opinion whatsoever. Part of the getting-your-groove-back regimen is to just post and post until it becomes second nature again and to aim for quality after that :)

If you’ve read through the Tuzhilin Report (yawn) by Dr. Alexander Tuzhilin, I know you’ll agree to this: sections 5 to 7 would make a nice handout for teaching PPC to newbies :)

In case you don’t want to read through all 47 pages, here’s the summary:
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Too tired to test the new clickfraud barometer inside AdWords now but it does look promising, especially if you have 4-figure daily budgets.
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Been a while since I last read/wrote about the SEO beat. I’ve got over 2000 unread feeds in Bloglines and I thought I’d try bringing that count down a bit. While there’s very little free time for blogging and blogline-ing, I do accept the fact that it’s now a necessary ‘evil’. In this industry of ours, one can’t be gone for an extended period. A day spent away from the SEO life might mean:
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Looking for a senior web designer / creative director and a kick-ass CSS designer. Please send resumes with URLs of projects to my email address at marc-at-macalua-dot-com.

(from right to left) the Sharmskee, Richard (our guide), Earl the Pearl Calma, me and Cotabato Dick.

Just came back from a 3 nighter in Davao. Twas my first time to Durian Country and wow I never thought the Sharmskee and I would have such a grand time in Davao City. Earl Calma, a good friend I met in college (we were bunkermates in one of the God-forsaken dorms along Esteban Abada) had volunteered to give us the grand tour of Davao and he didn’t disappoint! We must have packed a week’s worth of activities in 72 hours. I tell you if it weren’t for Kakuei’s wedding, Earl might have taken us up to Apo.
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Some Mayon Volcano pics I took this morning.
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