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An Article Assignment System For Blog Networks April 28, 2006

One of things I really enjoyed about being a print publisher was actually meeting the writers that were contributing to my magazine. The cameraderie was in itself worth the effort of travelling from city to city - for me, within a 2 hr drive. Another thing I enjoyed was being able to sketch out a list of topics that I wanted to see covered over a a specific duration of time. And because I had met my writers, it was easier to assign story ideas to particular writers or contributing editors. I could tell whether they’d really be interested in …

Determining The Author Of The Current Post April 12, 2006

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This post is the precursor to the post I’ve promised that shows how you can tweak your WordPress blog platform to share Google AdSense or Chitika (or what have you). Instead of writing a single, long, complicated post, I thought I’d split the instructions up into two posts. This post shows you how to determine the author of a specific blog entry. If you are going to test the code, you’ll need to create a couple of test users on your WordPress blog, then post at least one entry each.

While researching the WordPress documentation, I was surprised to find that …

Sharing the Ad Revenue Wealth - Part 1 - General Algorithm March 22, 2006

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With professional blogging being a hot endeavour for both serious people and ne’er-do-wells, many bloggers have found that there’s synergy in blogging together, whether on a single blog or a network. Most such collaborative blogs are running some form of contextual advertising, including Google AdSense, YPN (Yahoo! Publisher’s Network), or Chitika eMinimalls (which can be either contextual or non-contextual).

Since these blogs are collaborative, everyone has to be compensated, according to the payout schedule. In a post at BlogSpinner, I gave a general guideline to revenue sharing, and the rules of (some) ad networks. Here, I’ll provide a very general …