Re: [Rosegarden-devel] google ads

[D. Michael McIntyre <michael.mcintyre@ro...>]

On Friday 14 December 2007, Chris Cannam wrote:

> So far we seem to be getting largely ads for Windows-based music notation
> software.  That's a bit strange to look at, but I dunno, is it a problem?

I don't guess it's a huge problem.  Especially since the ads don't show up if 
you use Konqueror.  I had to start Firefox to see what you were talking 
about.  That is strange indeed, but I think most people looking at our site 
would just ignore those the same way I ignore all the stupidly inappropriate 
ads that show up in other contexts.

It always seems like the sites that get to the top of these things are always 
the most flagrantly obnoxious ads, like "SpamMart has a special one day sale 
going on snerf herder retribution cycles, click now and explore the great 
deals before they go away!"

So I'd be inclined to ignore this, and not waste energy trying to tailor the 
ads.  Unless we get more money if people actually click stuff. In which case 
let's get some porn ads on there.

"Now in the Garden of Roses, we have HOT NAKED WOMEN IN YOUR AREA WHO WANT TO 
HAVE SEX WITH YOU TODAY!  CLICK NOW!!!!!!!!"

Or on a more serious note, we could get ads for Roland, Yamaha, mAudio, 
zzZounds.com, something relevant.
 
> Either way, I imagine the big question is simply whether it'll make enough
> money to be worth the ugliness and faff.

Faff.  This word doesn't exist in the American lexicon, but I think we should 
adopt it.

> I stuck the ads up there 
> yesterday afternoon, and -- the excitement -- it's already earned us one US
> cent!  They cash out when you reach each multiple of USD 100, so at this
> rate I reckon we'll be seeing some handy funding dollars in about 2016. 
> Let's hope the dollar's recovered a bit by then.

I'm still waiting to reach the $10 mark on my Amazon referrals thing.  I've 
been waiting for months now.  I'm kind of underwhelmed by the potential money 
making opportunities for anyone who isn't selling porn.
-- 
D. Michael McIntyre 

[Rosegarden-devel] google ads

[Chris Cannam <cannam@al...>]

Well, I signed up to Google AdSense and have stuck some ads on the RG 
homepage, just to see what happens.

So far we seem to be getting largely ads for Windows-based music notation 
software.  That's a bit strange to look at, but I dunno, is it a problem?  I 
suppose it might be nice to be funded by our competitors' advertising budget, 
and perhaps seeing the alternatives up there all the time will spur us to 
greater things, or something... or perhaps not, and perhaps it's just weird 
and iffy.  It is possible to weed out competitors' ads by URL in the Google 
ad manager, but I haven't done anything like that yet.

Either way, I imagine the big question is simply whether it'll make enough 
money to be worth the ugliness and faff.  I stuck the ads up there yesterday 
afternoon, and -- the excitement -- it's already earned us one US cent!  They 
cash out when you reach each multiple of USD 100, so at this rate I reckon 
we'll be seeing some handy funding dollars in about 2016.  Let's hope the 
dollar's recovered a bit by then.


Chris

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] sourceforge logins

[Chris Cannam <cannam@al...>]

On Friday 14 December 2007 02:30, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> We should go file a bitch ticket or something.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1850669&group_id=1&atid=200001


Chris

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] sourceforge logins

[D. Michael McIntyre <michael.mcintyre@ro...>]

On Wednesday 12 December 2007, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> > Is it just me?
>
> No, apparently not.  Irritating, isn't it?  I wonder what the hell
> happened? I hadn't had to log in since I can't remember when.

It's irritating as hell.  This combined with their retarded login page not 
having a link back to where you just were is enough that two days into it, 
I'm ready to start screaming obscenities at whatever fucking genius 
apparently broke the code that used to make your login work for some long 
interval.

We should go file a bitch ticket or something.
-- 
D. Michael McIntyre