How many of these ads will be sponsored by Halliburton?

More seriously than what, exactly.

Nothing wrong with making some money.

Actually, I am viewing the site right now at 800x600 but it would be ridiculous to expect anyone to make any sacrifice to accomodate this old Toshiba laptop. The thing is nearly ten years old and lives on a tea tray downstairs for web surfing while watching TV or if I get stuck in a game and need a solution from GameFAQs.com. Just a 333 MHz K6-II but it does the job. The slowest machine I still have in regular use, although its Win3.x predecessor in somewhere in the closet.

If the site goes a bit wider I'll just have to endure the horrendous labor of adjusting the horizontal scroll bar.

The horror...

You selfish bastard!

Oh, wait, I'm conservative/libertarian so selfishness is ok.

As you were.

I'll just go right on ignoring the extra ads like I ignore the current ones.

Hey, I used to watch Simon and Simon. I can tune out anything.

Ads I can live with. Ads that move and blink back and forth I can't abide. At some point, I suppose, I'll have to balance my tolerance of the Tony Blair-type of ad you've got running now and the enjoyment I receive from the Ace blog.

Because of you some student somewhere in Ohio won't be getting a student loan you greedy capitalist fascist pig.

The only downside to less lateral display will be the loss of viewing the magnifience of Dick Cheney's throbbing and elongated cock in all its regal splendor!

This decision will be a tremendous loss for one and all!

Save Dick Cheney's cock view!

I've never seen a problem that having money made worse.

"...I'll also be taking this blogging-thing a little more seriously with more money from it coming in."

'Cause it's not like you do this for a living.
What do you do for a living? Just being nosy.

Must be rough being the #1 conservative blog and all.

Rake in the money dude!

Don't sweat it brother. Do what you need to do, just don't give any moving monkeys to punch. Thanks.

Doesn't bother me. Good to see the blog money starting to come in.

Yeah, what they all said. We'll live with it.

Follow your dream, babe.

Hey. Duh, ya'all. Ace is actually saying, "Yo, readers, for the love of all things Holy, click my Blogads!"

I think I'll do just that. I'll invite all you people to do the same so he can hit the ornament sales because the ribbon thing, while cute, can't go on forever.

Simon & Simon? You might have to charge extra for that... Just remember to draw the line at certain shows too awful to watch for any money, like Buck Rogers :P

Oh, I don't know. The tree seemed nice enough. I showed the picture to my wife, and she thought it was cute that a bachelor like Ace took the time to put up and decorate a tree.

Still, though. Give us a P.O. box address and we'll send along some ornaments fit for the AoSHQ Christmas tree.

Feisty, I think he's just saying he'd like a little extra spending money if you know what I mean and I think you do.

I'm reminded of a line from Liberal Larry regarding blogs: "Blinking ads spackled together with poo." LOL.

Go for it, don't apologize. This is capitalism at work. I'll keep reading.

I've got no problem with a second sidebar. And I don't even mind clicking on the ads, if it'll bring in a few pennies.

No way, though, am I going to touch an ad that sits there flashing and blinking at me like a piece of f'in Japanese seizure-anime. Those people are in dire need of some consumer feedback.

Hey its your place, do what you want and don't apologize. If I could figure out a way to get paid for reading this stuff I would do it in a heartbeat.

Just stay funny.

I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Do these new ads happen to be gay ads?

Do what you need to do, just don't give any moving monkeys to punch.

I can (barely) tolerate those. What I absolutely could not stand were the "swat the mosquito" ads complete with annoying buzz sounds. A couple of ad-ridden sites I visit loaded up on those, and when I had a couple of pages open all the buzzing was intolerable. It's pretty ridiculous to have to turn off your speakers to look at a web site, not to mention being unable to listen to music, etc., from the computer. I finally dug into the HTML source, found the site that was serving those ads, and blocked it in my hosts file.

So, please, whatever you do, NO ADS WITH SOUND. Thank you.

Hey. Duh, ya'all. Ace is actually saying, "Yo, readers, for the love of all things Holy, click my Blogads!"

I think I'll do just that. I'll invite all you people to do the same so he can hit the ornament sales because the ribbon thing, while cute, can't go on forever.

You have to be very careful with this. Ironically, in the old days sites would beg you to click on their ads, and that was seen by all sides as a good thing. Now, after a lot of sites set up scripts or paid people to click on ads, it's more often seen as a scam. One site I looked had lost their advertising service (blogads or googleads I think) for a few days after what I thought was a pretty innocent "please check out our sponsors" request. (They appealed the decision and got the ads back.)

I think the thinking right now is put the ads up and they while they hope people will click through them they do not want them encouraged, as they have no interest in people clicking on ads "to help the site" when those people have no intention of buying anything.

One more thing, while we're on the issue: When I first heard about the direction this movie was taking, I was surprised that this could come from the person who made Schindler's List. I have heard many other people express the same sentiment when reviewing and commenting on Munich.

But when you think about it, Schindler's List had some of the same elements. Yes, it was a movie about the Holocaust, but its central character was a German working to save Jews. In that case, Spielberg's ridiculous need to show an "evenhanded" approach to everything, no matter how vile, was masked by the fact that Schindler was a real person who really did those things (though he was shined up a little for the movie). I suspect if there had been no actual Schindler then Spielberg would have felt it necessary to invent one.

Er...ignore that last post. I thought I was in the comment page for Munich.

It's all about the Hamiltons baby.

I don't care of you have a continous scroll mid screen selling me penis enlargement cream. I can read around it.

So you want to be a successful blogger?
Listen to what your readers want.

The first thing I do is go to Drudge for breaking news.
Then it's off to Realclearpolitics. Powerline is next, followed by AoS.

The rest of the sites I visit periodically: Townhall, OpinionJournal, BlameBush, Lileks, and Ann Coulter.

If AoS could provide all that: News, analysis, commentary, humor, and a liberal ass-whoopin', it'll be the best blog ever.

In the words of your surrogate father and hero, Capt. Picard:
Make it so.

(Or was it Engage? Oh, who cares.)

Who broke the bandwidth?

Drudge is not top of the list for any reason other than being like the National Enquirer. Drudge happened to get shitcanned from enough mainstream jobs to have enough resources to know when papers are sitting on stories. Drudge got big BECAUSE of monika lewinsky, he wasn't an outsider, who did hard work, he was a guy who was willing to betray the sources (his contacts in the mainstream meadia companies he got fired from, as I understand) Drudge ain't no superhero, he's a Wannabe MStreamer, shitting on cats like Ace, and AJ, and Michelle because Drudge thinks he's a "straight" reporter, he won't admit that there is no such thing.

F drudge. He's only good for Headlines, not for stories.

Bart Said

So you want to be a successful blogger?
Listen to what your readers want.

The first thing I do is go to Drudge for breaking news.
Then it's off to Realclearpolitics. Powerline is next, followed by AoS.

The rest of the sites I visit periodically: Townhall, OpinionJournal, BlameBush, Lileks, and Ann Coulter.

If AoS could provide all that: News, analysis, commentary, humor, and a liberal ass-whoopin', it'll be the best blog ever

I don't see Bart listing his blog. I don't either, I don't have one, I'm too lazy. But let me tell you what makes your blog Awesome Ace. . . You aren't a pulpiteer, You arn't a complete partisan, you aren't a "serious" commentator. That makes you popular, you engage in all of the things above, without being ANY of those things above. I don't know if you keep track, but in the last. . .month or so, I've been commenting like a fanatic, which, in some ways I amn.

THIS is what makes a great blog. If you come to blogs looking for straight news? you are pathetic. If you think that Insta is the BEST blog, then you are wrong. Insta, ain't the blogger he was, he's a good REFERENCE source, but in general his original content is non-specific, and non-participatory. A year or so ago, insta was AMAZING, he was not only active, but also willing to offer commentary. Gateway is prolly the best News Blog, cuz of all of the quotes, but if you take a ratio, Gateway only has 2 posts a day, 9/10ths of which are quotes.

Ace here? I LOVE ACE! He won't make a BS link just for attention, or for recycling stories all to often, unless he himself has an opinion.

Ace, is my most FREQUENT Blog. Second is AJ.

Don't know how well I wrote this, but this is the site that informs and entertains, and Ace has more original content than any One Man Blog, and when Ace isn't sure? he's happy to admit it. Closest competition to Ace, is Cold Fury(in my as yet moderate experience.)

The only good news blog is Rantburg.