I have quite a few new projects started. These should keep me busy for a while.

Advertising
I am working to consolidate all of my adverting through a single source. I have chosen Openx as my platform. Currently my advertising as has been scattered through direct images, third party served ads, application specific ad scripts, and openx. I am now going to be running everything through Openx under my new parent company called Sacramento Publishing. The ads will run from a single domain sacpub.net. This way none of my stats will get intermixed with serving an ad.

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When running a forum there are many choices.  You can go the free route like PHPBB and SMF or the paid route like Vbulletin and Invision Power Board.  I have run site on all of these platforms and they all have their benefits and drawbacks.

I really like to stick with as few platforms as possible.  Up to now vbulletin was my forums software of choice.  Vbulletin recently made some changes and I am looking at other platforms.   Some of these changes were a good thing, but not all of them.  I figured this would be my chance to look at these other platforms.

Follow this blog and I will document my findings.