That time of year again … for what seems like a day or two (to me) seems to have somehow mysteriously stretch out to a week - or longer!

The problem with having these “stress release” moments (between jobs, while new coffee pots are brewing, while printing, while multitasking, etc) is that there is not enough time to do the actual work. I surf a little, read a little, socialize a little, and so on and so on .. and then have to get back to work. I completely forget to actually do blogging work!

So - I guess it’s time to start this use spreadsheet again!

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I have finally signed up to Pubmatic.com .. at least for the beta period .. to test.

I have currently selected only 1 blog to test because I think it is a lot of work to switch the code all around. The blog that I have selected … is 1-8-0-0-H-A-R-T .. and I have only setup my Google Adsense account with Pubmatic. The theory, is that *before* .. I only made $15.34 in adsense in the month of January 2008 on this blog .. and hopefully *after* the test period is over .. it will be - more.

The problem with testing things is, that things need to be tested and worked out. There will probably be a lot of crappy looking ads on 1800HART blog for a while, as Pubmatic is in learning mode .. and it is trying new things automatically. I mean - that’s its job, right? To try things and test things out to maximize the monetization.

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Yes.. I remember this post:
Mar/2007 - I have no intention of twittering thank-you very much!

Okay. It’s Feb/2008 and I have resurrected my twitter account “PetLvr” and trying it seriously for at least the month of February 2008. I am using an application called Twhril v0.6 which required me to also install Adobe “AIR” (which I hear can be a memory hog)… but, so far so good.

So - if you feel like watching me virtually “pee” or “eating” or “posting ridiculous stuff” on twitter - feel free to follow me along I’ll probably include new posts from around our network as well

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Apparently .. betweem 3:45pm CST and 4:26pm CST our sites were offline today, because we apparently reached 150% of our CPU usage. I wouldn’t have noticed, if it hadn’t been for my alerts from Montastic.com - the free internet monitoring service.

I just set up a whole bunch of alerts and have them email them to my Gmail account when my sites are down. I contacted my host provider - determined what the cause was - and reboot was up shortly.

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* I’ve been keeping track of my HART-Empire Network Earnings Online ..

Here is the link: HART-Empire Network Earnings Spreadsheet Document

The earnings are on an “Accrual” basis, where I’m documenting what I’ve earned, but monies will usually come in the following month, or (if ever) when I reach the minimum threshold for release of my earnings for payment. The expenditures are on a “Cash” basis, as I pay something related to my online earnings, I just load up the spreadsheet and modify it. (more…)

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