Congratulations to all the winners of the CMF Ads Review contest.  Since I’m writing this article before midnight, even I don’t know the t-shirt winner yet. Scroll down to the last paragraph to learn who will be wearing a Turnip of Power T-shirt.  I’d like to thank the following 14 people who wrote reviews and commented [...]

Friday’s public launch of CMF Ads went better than expected. Dozens of skeptical bloggers showed up asking questions and were pleasantly surprised what they found.  They saw an ad network that caters to bloggers, with helpful and friendly forums that can answer many of your questions about your blog or blogging in general.  We doubled our membership [...]

We have a contest winner!  CMF Ads is proud to announce Erin from Thirty Something Blog as the winner of the CMF Ads Logo Contest.  We changed the colors and added the word “Ads” to her submission, but it was her choice of font that earned her first prize.  (or perhaps an anti-turnip bias from [...]

I once laughed when a friend used WordPress 2.7′s auto plugin installer and temporarily hosed his blog.  He had uploaded a zipped file that wasn’t a plugin at all.  All he had to do was remember his shared hosting login and delete the plugin from the directory.  But it made for some comical  “OMG, what [...]

Who is Ken Armstrong?  Ken is all things to all men.  Irish playwright, author of several published short stories, blogger, CMF Ads Beta Tester, and Stumbler.  Stumbler?  Yes, Ken published a short story on Christmas Eve titled “Long Distance” that went viral on StumbleUpon, gaining him 21,879 unique visitors in a 3 day period.  Thus [...]

I’ve been a longtime fan of  WP Super Cache for WordPress.  It works as advertised and significantly lowers page generation times and stress on your WordPress database.  Today I compare it to a new caching plugin called DB Cache Plugin.  It claims to be faster because it caches the php calls rather than the entire page.  Do these claims [...]

Normally, when a website inadvertently publishes the personal information of 2436 people to the internet, they apologize. Of course that requires an executive decision and good luck finding the EC owner on the beach. With the announcement of the new EC forums coming soon, it wasn’t too hard to guess the actual URL. (Hmm, I [...]

I thought I would post a few of the recent submissions to the CMF Ads Logo Contest.  The contest will continue until we launch our new widget, so be sure to submit an entry or two.  The winner will receive $20 worth of free advertising and the pride of seeing their logo used on the network.  Not to mention [...]

Special launch contest!  Before we launch the new widget, one final order of business is to create a new CMF logo. The current CMF logo shows several ads overlapping, to highlight the way that you buy an ad and share views with other ads on the same spot – hence the low cost to advertise. [...]

Not the most brilliant of discoveries, but a connection certain people like to deny exists.  Traffic exchanges destroy your Alexa rank.  There is no point in arguing the value of an Alexa rank, much like Google’s page rank, it has no value in its own.  However, certain advertising companies use it to rank sites. If you do [...]