• Careerbuilder.com - Good stuff! Probably my favorite.
• Monster.com - 2nd on my list. Great posts, good interface, high traffic.
• Hotjobs.com - Not in my favorites. It is OK and they do have postings, but it doesn’t seem to have as many as the other two and there is an awful lot of “work at home” spam posts.
• Indeed.com and Simplyhired.com - These sites display Google-like results and search multiple job posting websites. I was pretty impressed with them.

There are certainly alot of “crap” job posting websites out there, that is a fact. Are there any that are among your favorites, which I may have missed?

Delicious was starting to have speed issues under its old architecture and Yahoo has stated that this new back end is far more scalable and the site is running much faster. The new search engine now offers several different ways to search for things. These include the traditional search, tag searching, personal bookmark searching, searching a friend or individual user’s bookmarks, and searching through bookmarks in the user’s social network. Yahoo plans to add even more new features in the future.

If you haven’t tried out delicious, I encourage you to give it a test drive!

I need to mow the lawn today and it can take a few hours to do that. With no iPod it is one of the most boring things I do. I usually listen to audio books and it makes mowing the lawn really not that big a deal. In order to try to make this a more enjoyable experience I decided to try to fix our iPods.

B&W iPod

I found a few different sites with various instructions on how to fix your broken iPod. I opened my first iPod up and tried the “folded paper method”. With the clicking sounds, it isn’t terribly surprising that it didn’t work. I might buy a new hard drive for it since they only run around $40.

Color iPod

Now that I “tested” opening an iPod on my older one, it was time to see what I could do about the newer one. The color iPod was a little tougher to open, but open it I did. I was going to try the “folded card” method, but noticed that the hard drive cable appeared as though it was not plugged in all the way on one side. I firmly pressed the pins back in, closed up the iPod, and I’m back in business! The iPod is working again!

Now, off to mow the lawn and hit up one of my favorite audio books.

Tom, thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to conduct this interview with The Webmaster’s Edge. I would like to start off by saying that I was a bit taken aback by your payment model. You pay the Publisher FIRST and THEN display the ads. You sometimes pay the Publisher more than once a day and this is all performed instantly over Paypal. While this is not the only payment option, it is your most prominent and preferred. I must admit that when Julie e-mailed me about your Network it made me a bit leery at first, but I had to think to myself “What do I have to lose by giving them a trial run?”. My answer was little to nothing, I have little or nothing to lose because your payments are all up front, so there is very little fear about it being some sort of scam. Is this what you were going for by utilizing this Payment model? How well has it worked?

There are so many concerns facing every publisher, especially when it comes to selecting a new ad network. We wanted to remove the biggest fear “will I get my money??” once and for all by paying cash in advance.

How long has The Robert Sherman Company been serving Advertisers and Publishers?

We began our first website, Quizland.com in April, 1995. We’ve been serving ads to other webistes since July 1999.

Are there any specific categories that The Robert Sherman Company focuses on? Are there any specific categories that you steer clear from?

Most sites of interest to large groups of folks are welcome. Sites targeting working women, sites about sports, technology sites, and entertainment pages are in particularly high demand right now. The sites we don’t work with are “adult content” and pages that are designed merely to generate clicks.

What payment model(s) (CPM, CPC, CPA) does The Robert Sherman Company utilize?

We pay 100% CPM to our publishers. They have enough grief in their lives without having to hope for CPA’s and CPC’s to pay off.

What are the primary ad sizes served by The Robert Sherman Company?

728×90 Leaderboards, 468×60 banners, 120×600 and 160×600 towers, 300×250 rectangles, and popunders which still pay the best by far.

What are your feelings on the current state of the Internet Advertising Industry? Do you have any thoughts on any specific industries such as SEM, PPC, CPM, or CPA?

As we eventually exit this recession (someday), I think the pundits will be surprised: The internet will have proved more resilient than traditional media, with a higher share of the world’s ad revenue than ever. That means that the largest advertisers will be buying more of the available inventory on a CPM basis, leaving less space for alternative revenue models such as CPA and CPC.

Until the recession eases, of course, CPA will be prominent, as it is in other media during tough times.

What are your thoughts on the future of The Robert Sherman Company? Do you have any specific projects you are working on that aren’t “top secret”?

We hope to add more types of ads to the mix, to give our publishers more choices. Full motion video and other long form ads of various types are being tested right now.

What does The Robert Sherman Company offer that other Ad Networks might not?

We pay 100% cash in advance.
Our ads are 100% CPM based, with no Cost Per Click or Cost Per Action.
We don’t force publishers to run our cheapest ads. Instead, if they wish, we’ll throw them a redirect code to bring up an ad from their other ad suppliers. We’re not shy about offering redirects if it means more revenue for the publisher in the long run.

Interested Publsihers can apply for this Ad Network at:
http://www.robertsherman.com/agreement.htm

Well, I’ve been working on my wife’s resume, some other web properties, some Advertising deals, and we had my wife’s parents over for a few days. She is middle school teacher and is just finishing up her permanent technology certificate, so she’s going to look toward getting a permanent position now that she’s done with school.

We built some new stairs on to my deck this week as well as chained my Grill to the deck so that it won’t be whisked away by a storm again. Big thanks to my father-in-law for doing that! He’s quite handy with a drill, whereas I’m quite handy with a keyboard. He comes over and builds things, I help them with their laptop. Tis what family is for.

I think that I will likely continue the HTML A-Z series tomorrow and go from there. I also hope to have my first Ad Network interview up as soon as possible. Just waiting for a few responses at the moment so that I can move forward with posting the first in my new interview series.

Many sources are reporting that Google was ready to purchase Digg for an estimated $200 million dollars, but walked away and buried the deal during the final stage of purchase. I believe that TechCrunch was the first to report on it.

While some speculate that it was a “personality issue”, it is very possible that Google did not like what they saw when they got into the technology behind Digg. There is some speculation that Google will be adding some “Digg-Like” features to their search engine. Perhaps Google decided that their technology was better and has opted to bury Digg like they did their deal.

Only time will tell. Just remember to bow to your Google Overlords and then watch the video of how Google will take over social media.

HTML

I have started to go over HTML code elements and as I do so I will be adding them to the Wiki. I hope to have this fleshed out nicely within a few months and then begin adding tutorials and examples in order to compliment the element guide.

Community Forums

I probably shouldn’t have started the site with Community Forums. It was sort of “shooting for the moon” in a way, and the lack of posts makes the site look “dead”, when it is far from it. Comments on Blog posts have been gaining activity, but the Forums are being left out. Due to this, I will likely be closing the forums for now, probably de-integrating them with the Wiki.

Guides

Expect more server administration guides! I have gotten some good traffic from some of these guides, and there have been quite a few people who have found them helpful. As these guides have been answering questions for people in search of answers, I will most certainly be writing more. I’m very pleased to be able to give a helping hand to others who administer their own servers. While I will be making guides for various server configurations, my main focus will be on CPanel.

Ad Network Interviews

The coding and deisgn aspect of the site is an important one, and the server administration aspect is equally important. However, another important facet I plan to soon focus on is knowing which Ad Networks to go with and how the industry is doing. One way to do this is to interview representatives of different Ad Networks. The first of many will be coming soon so make certain to keep an eye out for it!