Using Google Adsense WITHOUT Your Own Website!
Current mood: energetic
Category: Web, HTML, Tech

Hey everybody,

I just wanted to share some valuable info that will not only explain why I will be blogging a bit more in the near future, but will put a little money in your pocket, too.

Unless you are a caveman (I hope the guys from the Geico commercial aren't reading this...), you know what Google Adsense is already. Well, unless you have your own website, it seems that Google Adsense is useless to you, right?

WRONG. There are some websites out there that allow you to share in advertising revenues through your Google Adsense account. So, you can post to other people's websites and still make money from Google Adsense. How nice is that?

Today, I am going to tell you about one of those sites in particular. It has already earned me some money, and I just signed up like, the day before yesterday!. I hadn't even done anything but create a profile. But I checked my Google Adsense account just for kicks, and what do you know, I had made a little money! The point is that this stuff works for real. Will you get rich? I doubt it. But it's free money, and if you keep reading, you will learn how just being my friend can help you earn even more.

The site is called RateItAll.com. It's an opinion based site where you create a profile and weblists, and you comment on polls and stuff. Not something you would go to every day, but hey, you waste enough time here on MySpace to give it a shot. The good part is that when people click on Google Adsense ads on pages that you either create or contribute to, you get paid!

Nice, huh?

My profile can be found here: http://www.rateitall.com/icjackson - when you visit my profile, please click on one of the Google Adsense ads on my profile page. I get paid 100% of those revenues. If you do it for me, I will do it for you, too!

(Now you don't have to get crazy and click them all; Google suspects that to be fraud.)

If you decide to sign up for Rate It All, please use my ID, "icjackson", as your referral. Feel free to come back to this blog entry and post your profile addy as a comment so myself and others can visit your profile and help you earn some money, too!

(If you don't yet have a Google Adsense account, you can apply throiugh Rate It All or go straight to http://www.google.com/adsense)

I will be blogging about various topics in the future that will include Rate It All polls for you to rate. Please rate the items on the polls, and don't forget to click on one of the Google Adsense ads on those pages while you're there!

I also found a list of other websites that provide Adsense revenue sharing programs. You can view this list at http://www.listible.com/list/adsense-revenue-sharing-sites and see if anything grabs you. You never know - you could get your hustle on doing this!

So that's what's up for today. If you know of any other websites that provide Adsense revenue sharing programs like these, please add them as a comment here. I hope that you help support my efforts, and if you let me know what you are doing, I will support yours.

It's free money - go out and get a little!

Ivo

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Washed Up Actors On Commercials
Current mood: excited
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

Hey y'all...

I don't know if it's just me and my sister, but we get excited when we see actors from back in the day on national commercials.

I don't know, it's like, I'm happy to see that they are getting work...

But anyway, have you seen the new Turbo Tax commercial where the Black guy is like, "Let me...", and he just takes the keyboard and starts typing? If you have, then you might realize that you have seen him somewhere before.

It is Col. Taylor's son Terrence from "A Different World"!

I was like, "Aaaaagh! It's Terrence!"

I feel the same way when I see them on sit-coms and TV dramas.

Like, my husband saw Kadeem Hardison (another "A Different World" star) on Law and Order and was like, "wow, he's fat now..."

But at least he's getting work!

He really is fat, though...

Not like I feel sorry for actors or anything...but I mean, it's hard out here, so little part here and there can add up.

Like the dude from "Girlfriends" that was dating Toni.....umm...Greg. Do you remember broke artist Greg?

Now he's on some commercial about osteoperosis or something...the one where the lady is singing, "I will be here, I will be strong...something something something, when the night is long..."

You know.

Is it just me?

Hey, you've got to find life's little joys where you can,

Ivo

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Happy Birthday Keisha G!
Current mood: happy
Category: Friends

Happy Birthday, Keisha!

Keisha G is turning .... today, and so I decided to sing her a song!

And if you know me, then you know how I love to sing!

So click on the iPod below to hear a very special rendition of "Happy Birthday"! (opens in new window)

[Note: Original version by the Memphis Twinz. Their contact information will not be posted because you will all be stalking them looking to get them to write and produce your next album. They don't have time for that. They are too busy making movies and stuff.]

It's the remix, but I know you'll love it!

Although this is a happy birthday shout out to Keisha G, who is turning ... today, all of you are welcome to listen and leave your comments!

Talk to you soon,

The Next Mariah Carey,

Ivo

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Addicted To MySpace - Your Stories
Current mood: chipper
Category: MySpace

Alright,

I am officially addicted to MySpace. Now since I have a lot of obligations (family, church, business) that keep my days filled to capacity already, I cannot indulge as I probably would...and that's actually a good thing. I know some MySpace addicts, and it can get a little scary!

So I wanted to open the floor for the bona fide MySpace addicts reading this blog to share their stories; the best, worst, and weirdest experiences that you have had on MySpace.

Especially funny stories; I like to laugh.

Has anyone on MySpace stalked you through MySpace? Anyone met their husband or wife on MySpace? Anyone been fired from their job for MySpacing at work too much? (That last one isn't funny...now that I think about it, neither was that first one...and the second one wasn't funny, either...hmmm...maybe my sense of humor is warped...one of my middle school teachers told me it was...maybe she was right...)

So ANYWAY, MySpace addicts - what say you?

And is there a rehab?

Ivo

7:48 PM - 6 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment

Adventures with Relaxer Creme...
Category: Life

So I have this relaxer in my hair...

like, right now...

I usually use the coarse formula, but they didn't have it at Meijer last night (only place open...plus the beauty supply store charges WAY too much for perm...), so I got the regular and I have to let it sit on here a little while longer.

And it made me think...

I'm thinking about the whole natural vs. chemical, wanting to look like "myself" versus wanting to look "European" debate...

and you know, for a self-proclaimed smarty pants, I really don't know where I stand.

I mean, I don't hate when people go totally out there and rebel against all that would straighten or silkify...do you. But do I hate myself because I like my hair straight?

I don't think so. I understand the history connected to the warped sense of beauty that came into the Black psyche as abyproduct of acculturation. I got it. But....I mean, so what?

I don't hate my nose or my lips or my hips...

And technically, I don't hate my nappy hair...

but the truth is, its just not that cute when I wear it natural...

I used to have REALLY short hair...which was ever so cute...but I still had to at least texturize it...I looked like a total butch if I didn't.

And now that I don't wear my hair short anymore, I am having quite some time with my natural hair length not being what I want it to be...so I tend to keep it weaved up.

About to braid it up today. My hairstylist is moving away, and I can't get an appointment in before she does (sigh)....so I am going to put in some not-so-microbraids myself (I'm multi-talented like that), but its 1,000 easier to do when my hair is relaxed.

And doggone it, I think that besides being more managable, it just looks cuter straight...

just like I think some Black women look cuter with natural styles...

and my priority and my obligation is to aesthetics as opposed to race or culture.

If I thought kilts were cute, I'd wear them.

If I thought dashikis were cute, I'd wear them.

If I thought Birkenstocks were cute, I'd wear them.

But since I don't in any of the aforementioned instances, I don't...so what's the big deal?

(No really, I'm asking you. Its not rhetorical...)

Ivo Jackson

10:03 AM - 2 Comments - 2 Kudos - Add Comment

OK, So Why Does Flava Flav Exist In My World??!!
Current mood: aggravated
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

Ohhhh Kaaaay...

Why is Flava Flav a real life person and not just a bad dream I had after a sausage sandwich too late at night?

(Remember that episode of the Cosby Show?)

I mean, I know that "Flava of Love" is old news now, but I absolutely refuse to watch that garbage, so I saw Flava and "his women" on the Tyra Banks show today...

**NOTE** I do understand that I need my behind kicked for watching the Tyra Banks show for longer than 10 minutes...except for that time when she wore that fat suit...that was deep...and that time she went to prison...that was deep too....and the time she went undercover as a stripper...and that eating disorder show she did...

OK, so I sorta kinda like the Tyra Banks show...but don't tell nobody...(dialect)

However, she often disappoints me with her balance of deep shows with absolutely stupid ones.

So back to the story, today, Flava Flav and "his women" were on the show.

I could have thrown up...I mean, I was actually disgusted.

Besides Flava Flav being old, rusty, braids ain't done right, yukmouth gold grill, and oh yeah, BEING OLD, and NOT cute - besides all of that, "his women" were a hot raggedy mess, too!

A HOT, RAGGEDY MESS!

Now keep in mind, this is the first time I have ever met these characters, so I'm flipping out.

One of the girls had just graduated from medical school! But, she was an alcoholic who apparently has poor taste in all things important.

That scares me...I don't want her diagnosing NOTHIN' I got...

but anyway (you see I have to type in dialect in order to get this out...),

Flava Flav, as usual, is a bumbling idiot, running around, falling down, modeling, talking crazy, and showing his gold fronts. The man wears oversized clocks on ropes around his neck for Pete's Sake!

(who is Pete, by the way?)

This man is crazy!!! Why is it ok to watch him act like a retarded child and applaud? Why do Black people think that's funny? Black people can't even get mad and say that the media or the man is emasculating him or portraying him unfairly - this man is cutting his own...well, I don't have to go there.

But why is this cool? Where is the NAACP on this mess? Where were Jesse and Al when VH1 put THIS Black man on a pedastal for your children to watch and accept as...well, acceptable!

You might tell yourself that people understand that Flava is extreme and that he only embarasses himself, blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda. But that's some crap. If you laugh when you see that mess, you are saying that its at least alright for entertainment purposes, even though we all know that this is not fiction; its unscripted, its real life -

AND ITS NOT FUNNY.

Why is this real again?

Ivo

4:58 PM - 4 Comments - 3 Kudos - Add Comment

Why I'm blogging now...
Current mood: contemplative
Category: Blogging

Hey MySpace,

I have decided that I want to express myself now...so here I am. Not that you should just all of a sudden care a whole lot about that...but I don't know, maybe you do.

And what's really up is me trying to tap into this pointelss-dribble-blog phenomenon. The most popular blogs in the world aren't about anything at all. I have two other niche blogs here on MySpace - one is brand spanking new, but the other is a few months old...and its only gotten a little over 1,700 views. Some people here get that many views in a day or a week...and they ain't talkin' 'bout NOTHIN'!!!!

NOTHING I TELL YOU, N-O-T-H-I-N-G!

I mean, why does your personal diary of how many times you farted and scratched your behind worth over 100 comments? I don't get it...

But then again, maybe I do. Seinfeld was a show about nothing....one of the most successful in television history. Maybe people just don't want to be deep...

Nope...I lost it. I thought I was on to something for a minute, but nope, its gone. So, I'm going to try my hand at this mindless babbling blog thing, and maybe lace it with some deep stuff that I can slip in on you unawares...maybe then we'll all be happy.

Talk to you soon,

Ivo

4:52 PM - 2 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment