October 30, 2008 @ 11:33 am
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Here’s an email I just received from Google Adsense:
Dear Publisher,
We understand that the recent economic turmoil has created a lot of uncertainty in the lives of AdSense publishers. During these difficult times, we’re continuing to invest in innovations that improve publisher monetization and advertiser value in the content network.
We’re focusing on further developing our product offerings and boosting ad performance for publishers. We recently announced advancements in AdSense for search and experiments to make ads more effective. We’re bringing DoubleClick technologies to AdSense publishers, and we’ll continue to launch new products and features. We’re also continuing to improve our offerings for AdWords advertisers, making it easier for them to target the Google content network. Features for advertisers, such as the new display ad builder, are designed to improve ad performance on AdSense publisher sites.
We’ll keep driving technological progress, but our best asset will always be our publisher partners. The strength of AdSense lies in the value of the content you bring to users and the quality of the sites you bring to advertisers. Our success is tied to yours. We look forward to partnering with you for the long term, and remain dedicated to helping you succeed.
Sincerely,
Kim Scott
Director AdSense Online Sales & Operations
Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
If they really want to reassure me, they should just tell me what the split is on my ad clicks.
UPDATE: If I was a real blogger here’s the kind of post I would have written about this email.
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October 26, 2008 @ 8:38 am
· Filed under Reality
In December 1930, about a year after the great crash of 1929, John Maynard Keynes wrote:
“The world has been slow to realize that we are living this year in the shadow of one of the greatest economic catastrophes of modern history. But now that the man in the street has become aware of what is happening, he, not knowing the why and wherefore, is as full today of what may prove excessive fears as, previously, when the trouble was first coming on, he was lacking in what would have been a reasonable anxiety. He beings to doubt the future. Is he now awakening from a pleasant dream to face the darkness of facts? Or dropping off into a nightmare which will pass away?”
We are in a similar situation now.
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October 25, 2008 @ 11:25 am
· Filed under Reality
I used to have a blog on WordPress.com called Slantwise. I finally moved all the posts from there over to this blog. Here’s my favorite post from Slantwise: On The Web, You Can’t Escape Your Past.
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October 12, 2008 @ 4:16 pm
· Filed under Reality
Jim Rogers is a partner of George Soros, and a famous commodities investor. Here’s an interview with him from Bloomberg a year ago:
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October 10, 2008 @ 12:59 pm
· Filed under Reality
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September 29, 2008 @ 1:54 pm
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September 29, 2008 @ 10:31 am
· Filed under Reality
Here’s an email that is going around:
Dear American:
I need to ask you to support an urgent secret
business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.
I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of
America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large
transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in
this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.
I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS,
who will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a
Senator, you may know him as the leader of the American banking
deregulation movement in the 1990s. This transaction is 100% safe.
This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank
check. We need the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly
transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because we are
constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should
look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin
so the funds can be transferred.
Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and
college fund account numbers and those of your children and
grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer
your commission for this transaction. After I receive that information,
I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be
used to protect the funds.
Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury
Henry Paulson
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September 29, 2008 @ 7:15 am
· Filed under Reality
All the changes made to the original bailout bill are meaningless. Their only point is to provide political cover to the representatives who vote for it. See Congressional Charade: Changes in Bailout Bill Cosmetic, and Everyone Knows That. What’s astonishing to me is the lemming like way the Congressional Republicans are following Bush and Paulson off a cliff. I truly believe now that this coming election is the end of the Republican Party.
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September 28, 2008 @ 6:49 pm
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I’ve read this book every year of my life since I was ten, and I just read it again. It’s still good. |
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September 25, 2008 @ 6:50 pm
· Filed under Reality
From his latest speech:
“There is no nice way to say this, so I will be blunt: Our credit markets had contracted a hideous STD—a securitization transmitted disease—for which lowering the funds rate to negative real levels seemed to me to be not only an ineffective treatment, but a palliative and maybe even a stimulus that would only encourage further mischief.”
See more from his speech at Naked Capitalism.
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