Thursday, December 15, 2005
Adsense Or Nonsense?
Some of you may wonder why I have Adsense on my page. My reasoning is both insane and ridiculous. Both! You see, I wanted the page to have a more "official" look. So, in a way, putting that Adsense thing up was like painting with Crimson Blue. It was a design choice, you see. It may also wind up blowing a few dollars my way, and I can really use those dollars. So, there it is. Now the concept of Adsense, if I understand it correctly (and I may not), is that based on the content of this blog, ads will be displayed. So if I write a post about shit sandwiches, then you should see an ad for a site that sells a good shit sandwich. Or if I write about Burt Bacharach, you should see ads about Burt. Will it work? Who knows? The only ads right now are blog related. I presume that is because my first post was all about blogs, and my second post didn't have any useful key words. Now this post has a few key words (like "Burt Bacharach" and "shit sandwich"), so let the ads fly and watch the dollars blow to me.
Of course, I can't NOT have a problem with this in some way. And that problem may eventually lead to getting rid of Adsense. See, if I start getting ads for stores and products that I find reprehensible (morally or otherwise), then I'm going to have an ethical dilemma on my hands. While I may enjoy the money I receive because of my ads for cock rings, do I really want to be associated with cock rings? The answer, I guess, is that I do. On the other hand I may have a problem later when I wish to criticize shady advertising practices. Who am I? I have advertising on my page. Better not to thing about it for now.

