The state of JesseKunze.com

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This blog can only be described as neglected.  Abandoned?  Certainly not, but it hasn’t received the attention it deserves.  My mind’s been in Gadgetica, for the obvious reason of it being easier to market, profitable, and frankly easier to write for.  I can pump out a few good articles about Gadgets every day (But I try to only keep up big articles on weekdays, weekends are slower so I only published 2-4 times, sometimes even just once).

JesseKunze.com only gets an article whenever I think of one, and that’s not right.  So JesseKunze.com will, in the next few months be shifted around a little.  I will switch over to A Small Orange for hosting, and change up the meaning of the site.  This blog will become secondary, with a front page describing my websites, my best written articles, and other things I would like for people to see when they Google “Jesse Kunze”

Thanks, everyone, for reading all of my content and helping me in starting up.  You’re great.

My experience with my first intentionally controversial article

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Today, I posted one of my first articles with the aim of rustling a few feathers. It’s about why I dislike Klout, and other similar sites.  You can read it by clicking here.

Basically, I said Klout sucks, and posted it on a Website which has a lot of Klout users.  The oncoming hate was less than I thought it would be, actually, a lot of people agreed with me.  At the time of writing 58% of the readers agree with me, with the rest disagreeing.  I can’t say it was an exactly brutal article, however.

It’s had 25 comments so far (With under half of them being my replies), which is by far the most commented on Gadgetica.  It’s also had 100 visits in the first few hours, which is my second biggest article on it’s first day.

Would I suggest pissing people off?  Nah, but let your opinion be known.  It will cause a lot of visitors to come to your page, comment agreeing or disagreeing with you, and maybe even share with some friends.

When is the best time to start monetizing your blog?

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I started Gadgetica with the idea of monetizing once I picked up a modest amount of traffic.  I am of course doing this to try to subsidize my blogging endeavors and once I got my $10 out of the way each month, maybe make a little bit of change for potentially opening a network of blogs, saving, or of course, buying stuff.

But the question for me the whole time was, when do I start monetizing my blog, and how?    I am obviously against those ads that appear whenever you hover over words, and my blog isn’t selling anything so affiliate selling isn’t going to be too good.  So I decided for my first bit of advertising with an Adsense deal, on a whim.

No rhyme or reason.  I put the ads in places that weren’t intrusive to the reader, but were still displayed to be noticed to those folks not using ad blockers (Which I have decided to stop using for sites I visit more than once a day).

 But I digress, does anyone have any idea when it is an ideal time to start monetizing a blog with advertisements?  Right away?  Slowly integrate them into your blog?  I’d love to hear what you think.

 

Abandoned waterparks of America fascinate me (pictures).

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Tonight, I saw a post on Motherboard that you should definitely check out.  It’s fascinating, and checks out some waterparks in America that have been long abandoned.  It’s on the same interest level for me as dead malls, because they show massive efforts made by people that are eventually left behind and abandoned for the next great thing. Here are my choice favorite pictures. Click them to blow them up big.

All images are credited to Motherboard, or their photographers.  Check them all out here.

 

 

Might not write anything today, check out my new blog though (DO IT.).

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I’m having my wisdom teeth removed today.  Ouch.  Wish me luck with that, but on Gadgetica I have set up a few of my personal favorites from this very website to publish today (see above), and if I am still feeling off tomorrow I will finish it off with my other favorite posts.  Probably all that crap about buttons.

Either way, I was wondering how you guys felt about my new blog, some feedback y’know.  Feel free to either send me it directly or just comment about it.

I’m starving.  I couldn’t eat for 8 hours because of the anesthesia.  Why haven’t they come up with anesthesia that doesn’t have the risk of you choking on vomit?  Oh well.

A tale from the Apple store, nerds.

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I went to the Apple store today.  They gave me a free new iPhone and in-ear headphones to replace my broken ones.  That was awfully nice of them, and I may write something about their great customer service, but now I have to tell you about a story I witnessed at the Apple store – Something I think didn’t really happen, nerds with scraggly beards and weak ponytails “protesting” Apple.

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