Wow, what a morning!  Since Scoble gave his great keynote lot's of folks have given fun and interesting talks.  Marc Canter and Chris Pirillo gave a fun talk.  A good bit off topic, but man was it interesting.  Not any huge thing to talk about, except the Marc has some very interesting ideas for digital lifestyle aggregator and Chris says Google AdSense can make you money if you do it right.

 

Next was Molly Holzschlag.  Her talk was really about building traffic.  It deserves a post of its own, and shall have it, but later.  Bottom line she had great advice for starting a blog--and if you have a blog--so I'll give her the space she deserves.

 

Then was lunch and I by happen stance to run into a new client.  Then I caught the Corante Get Real webcast hosted  by Stowe Boyd and Scoble and the guy doing Beercasting (and I'm sorry I can't remember your name) on problogging.  Just fun to be there and listen.  I did introduce myself to Stowe (who will be at NorthernVoice) and Pete Blackshaw (who I had exchanged e-mails with...and remembered me!).

 

So right now Steve Broback and Glenn Fleishman are talking about monetizing blogs and I'm learning how to use AdWords to see what value there might be in starting a blog on a topic.  Glenn is talking about expanding your audience and how to do coverage well.  It seems that Google AdSense can make you money, but it seems to me that there has got to be a trick that I'm not getting (I have recently added Google ads to View from the Isle).

 

Glenn is giving some good examples of different kinds of ads and where he's put them.

 

But it is really about the content.  If you don't have good content you won't have readers, no readers, no people to click ads.  I waited until my traffic reached a certain threshold before I decided to add Google ads, hopefully it will pay off.

 

Now, below are a bunch of links, some are people mentioned above, others are cool folks who I've just met.

 

Bottom line:  No matter what, just being here is fun.