My payments have been stable - but nothing to write home about (biggest revenue comes from other networks). The telling sign will be from those who get $5,000+ / month consistently. If traffic is consistent, the change would be:
1) advertisers pulling campaigns (unlikely to happen so quickly)
2) google changes rev share (likely? unlikely?)
Another lesson in email marketing that's not discussed in the article is around email frequency. One key to powerful emails is getting the timing right. Sending weekly emails is for some companies too much... and for others too little.
It's imperative to track your email campaigns:
views
clicks
activities / goals
session length
then return sessions
It's also important to give users the ability to set their own timing. Some users want emails with every update (ie on Facebook). Others want daily summaries.
She is not really flooding my message stream, though. And the updates are kind of cute ("eating cake") - not so much different from the average tweet? I just subscribed to Jimmy Wales' updates and he wrote "dinner with friends".
I actually like that Arrington is expressing opinion in his articles... the other authors on his staff mostly give the news in black and white. When Michael writes, at least it has an op-ed type feel to it and gets you thinking (whether or not you agree with him is a totally a different matter!).
If he provokes some useful thought for you, terrific.
That being said... the post zeroes in on a question of integrity: Quoting someone means they said what you quoted. Don't you think Arrington could give you an op-ed opinion without misrepresenting the subject?
As for my skill set, I'm most proficient in C++ and Java with most of my professional experience in the application development space. I have done quite a bit of web development personally and in the classroom, so I'm quite familiar with PHP, HTML and CSS as well,
While I'm more interested in staying in the app dev space, I really just want a challenging development role -- be it desktop apps, web apps, or what have you.
Also, I've updated my profile to contain my e-mail.
Well, he's named in the NYT article and this is something that needs to be shipped frozen overnight. I believe he is the only person that grows miracle fruit in the USA. So if you don't trust him, no miracle fruit for you.
1) advertisers pulling campaigns (unlikely to happen so quickly) 2) google changes rev share (likely? unlikely?)