A bit more fiddling with PigPog's ads today. I replaced the Chitika ads at the bottom of the page with AuctionAds some time back, but it wasn't working too well. The ads were theoretically targeted using the page title, but as with similar Chitika ads, our titles rarely work well as keywords. I've now implemented AuctionAds as another type of ad we can insert 'semi-manually' - we put a simple code into a page, and Drupal turns it into an AuctionAds ad unit. Like this one for "Parker 51", for example...

You may notice some new ads on the right, from Performancing - we're experimenting with their new advertising network. Looks like it should run alongside Google AdSense safely enough (they don't look like Google ads, and they're not contextual, so they should stay on the right side of Google's ToS). They're just in the process of launching (haven't even officially announced yet), and don't have any advertisers, but it might be kind of interesting to experience something like this from the beginning. Plus, they seem like nice guys.

If you have a blog, and fancy giving it a go, you can read more at Performancing Partners, and if you go there from here and sign up, we should even get a bonus as a percentage of what you make.

Gawker Media, the people behind some of the most successful sites on the Internet, like Lifehacker (especially if success is measured by how much of their content is nicked, er, I mean linked, by us) and Gizmodo, have come up with an unusual idea for what to do with their spare advertising capacity.

If they don’t sell enough ads, they use the spare capacity to give publicity to artists, though a scheme they call Gawker Artists. If you’re an artist looking for a bit more exposure, you can submit some info and appropriately-sized images, and they might promote you too.

Another quick batch of linkage...

• A Tail By Any Other Name - Scott Adams is funny with just about anything, so given the story of a man with a 10-year long erection...
• 13-Inch Tail - Scott's follow up. He has a special rule for dealing with monkey-gods.
• Exhaust Insertions - a very silly set of pictures. Why? No idea. But the look on his face and the comments make them very funny. Inserting vegetables into an oversized exhaust (tail pipe, I think, for the Americans). (Via B3ta.)
• Pizza Ad in Your Peepers - jeepers creepers.
• A Collection of Cool Statues from JWZ.