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As broken by
Nick Wilson, up-and-coming
Perfomancing has
sold off it’s popular metrics product to
PayPerPost, the
bad boy and sometime
trouble maker of cash-for-comments startups.
Whilst PPP has (in part)
cleaned up their act they continue to be
viewed dimly by many.
Perfomancing will no doubt benefit strongly from the investment and core services such as […]

Christmas this year rocked. New Years will rock even harder.

Partly because there were (and are) no obligatory ‘family’ functions to attend, but partly due to a change in philosophy about what makes a good Christmas.

When one strips away all the pomp and ceremony, avoids the typical Christian rhetoric that is pounded out this time of year and simply decides to spend some quality time with a loved one, perhaps with the exchange of some gifts the whole tone of the festive season is changed.

After a short hiatus — the orange powered ninja is back and is just as badass ((.. or is that just plain bad? :) )) as ever.

If you recall, I had been experiencing some issues with the wordpress function is_page() — in that it wouldn’t always return a valid value ((.. due in part to my craptastic coding skills and playing fast and loose with functions)) in the sidebar. After trying, once again to crack the is_page() puzzle, I was struck by a simpler, faster and stupefyingly simple alternative. You ready for it?

Performancing’s Nick Wilson has recently announced that CPA advertising is now in place to ‘backfill’ advertising where no advertising orders have occurred:

“We’ve just finished inputing the promised first round of CPA (cost per action) ads into the beta “Network Ads” program to backfill unsold ad space across the Partners network.”

“Right now they are very broad in topic, as this is simply a test (but a test with the aim of making you money..), but presuming all goes to plan, we’ll roll out more creatives and more specific targeting in coming days.”

So, as you can see to the right of this entry, now sports some colourful advertising. Of dating services. Great. Did someone say broad? I need to have my hearing tested. Or my eyesight. Perhaps both.

From time to time, I’ve bumped into the odd cash-for-comment blog entry, with many views and thoughts on the topic.

Lets get this out in the open from the get go. I am not a fan of the concept and indeed believe it’s the worst possible option for a blogger ((.. more on that, shortly)).

Enter stage left, karma.

Thus, is is often the way with the universe, I happened upon a Whirlpool ((.. whirlpool is a large Australian broadband related forum)) forum entry today, entitled Pay Per Post.

So after three weeks, things are finally settling down at work and I have a little more time to think.

So what have I been doing over the last three weeks? Why, that’s so kind of you to ask! :)

Firstly, you might want to check out google maps to see where in the world Carmen Sandiego Brendan is.

Take a note of where Whyalla and Mt Gambier are - then take a note of the scale. Better still, here’s a grab from whereis.com.au. I’ve highlighted some of the stop-over locations during deployment work.