Tuesday, March 10, 2009

What I'm doing right now

12:56 p.m., San Francisco time: Holding a Google-branded water bottle that an AdSense research team gave me after visiting Gannett Blog's world headquarters just an hour ago. The three-person team watched me work for an hour, then peppered me with questions about how I use Google's ad-publishing system; AdSense serves the text ads in the green and blue sidebars, to your right. (The AdSense employees all seemed extremely smart; one holds a Stanford University degree in political science. And they were all so young: 24, 25 and 29 years old, I believe.)
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous3/10/2009 4:03 PM

    Great! Hey, did you ask them where they get the balls to publish ads on their news aggregator site while newspapers bleed to death?

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  2. Anonymous3/10/2009 5:04 PM

    Those are the people variously known as the best and the brightest, the smart young things, etc.

    You know ... the kind who used to be working for newspapers at that stage of their lives.

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  3. Anonymous3/10/2009 8:05 PM

    They were standing there watching for an hour thinking . . .
    "How can we make money off of this old fart?"

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  4. Anonymous3/11/2009 10:31 AM

    Dig the glasses, Jim.

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