Our host here, BooMan, is a classy guy.
But I’m not. This won’t surprise you once you realize my first diary here uses a sensationalistic title in order to fool you into doing my evil bidding.
Please click on the ads here at BooMan Tribune. Make this a part of your routine: “Time to do BMT…first click all the ads…check…now relax, read, post.”
Please also buy books from Powells.com if you can’t visit your local independent bookseller. This helps a wonderful and unique store in Portland thrive, and helps BMT.
Finally, buy some BooMan merchandise. If you’ve already got a frog marching on your coffee mug, get one for Grandma Millie.
We need a progressive majority. BMT will be a part of that, but not if BooMan is continually looking in the sofa cushions for spare change to keep the server running. Thanks for your help.
at this little company with ten employees called DoubleClick. “Banner ads on the web? You guys are sick,” is basically how the interview went before I walked back across the parking lot in Palo Alto to my existing cube.
So that should underscore my sincerity in asking for help keeping this site healthy. But please feel free to downrate me here if you feel I wasted a diary–I can take it.
ooooooo, a competitor to my sig-line reign of terror. drats! i’ve been drawn away from my clicking duties to respond to this diary. i’ve been had!
damn you ubikkibu! hey, that rhymed! 😀
has begun. I look forward to our power struggles. 🙂
I’m sorry I got crabby with you, Man Eegee … as part of my penance, i’ll listen to George Bush speak … oh god no oh god no. What else can I do to make it up to you?
beware of the incessant blinking, I’m convinced that that is the way he brainwashes his minions.
And what is that sideways thing he does with his jaw?
he knows that he’s pushing his luck if he eats the baby live on television.
Thank Ubikkibu, coinkydinky, I may be moving to Portland area and have heard about this wonderful store from others. I switcthed from Amazon to Barnes and Noble due to BuyBlue.org… when I saw Booman’s ad, I thought – great way to do some Christmas giving.
is nearly reason enough to move to Portland. And then there’s the sushi, and the ocean, and mountains…
does it work if I right click to open the ad in a different window?
I’m originally “from” the Mossyrock area and then later on the Whidbey Isle area of Washington. So it will be like going home.
Have a friend there even. Who has a passion for hockey and “understands” autism a bit as his own child is autistic.
Sushi!! Gorge!!! and job with full benefits…
Yes it does work–the “referer” HTTP header or URL parameter that lets the ad owner know you clicked is intact either way. In Firefox, I do several [Ctrl]+clicks to open each link in a tab, then close all the tabs, and I’m done in a few seconds.
Ever since the FBC-crew did their experiments with the cafe-headline back in August it has been part of the daily routine. The least we can do – click away!
FWIW I think it helps to click on the blogads, as well as the google and crispads. Although the blogads are paid up-front and not by the view, the advertiser gets a read-out of how many clicks the ad has generated. If they sense that they’re getting lots of looks, they may be encouraged to advertise further.
We get 25 cents for each subscriber to the Powell’s newsletter, and are hoping we can sign up more than 11 people (so far). There’s no charge to you … just an e-mail newsletter with info about the newest books + you get entered in a contest to win up to $100 in books.
That sign-up is down yonder on the left.
the spouse and I got our BooTrib shirts yesterday — freakin’ awesome! Even he was impressed, and he doesn’t impress easily.
We’ll far and away be the best dressed marchers in SF on the 24th…
Oh, and already received my first book from Powell’s — the second one is due to ship next month (new book). But I forgot my login info so will probably need to create a new one. 🙁 (I’m thinking of ordering that “Best Recipes” cookbook, though I need another cookbook like I need another hole in the head…)
Does Powell’s offer gift certificates? I’m thinking about Christmas gifts for my niece and great-niece up in Portland, and would love to support a local independent up there — don’t know if you’ve kept up with Bay Area news, ubikkbu, but Kepler’s in Menlo Park ran into some financial problems and suddenly closed 8/31, but there’s a group of local investors working on financing to reopen it, so that may be good news on the horizon…
my novels are at Powell’s
and I like Boo..
I only clicked once at dkos and bought God Without Religion which I am reading now- and recommend.