What? You mean people don’t care about a whiny little has-been? Color me stunned…

It’s been five months, so it’s time to see how it’s going: It’s been a complete joke and colossal waste of time and space. FM didn’t sell a single ad for me, (apparently, I’m not the only person to have this problem, so caveat emptor, bloggers) and while I’ve been running Google ads where the FM ads should have been, that was more trouble than it was worth. It’s just not worth less than $200 a month to deal with Bill O’Reilly and John McCain ads sitting there neo-conning the place up. I tried to take a hands off approach to advertising, but it left a really bad taste in my mouth, and since my blog is sort of an extension of me, what I still believe is a good business decision (content agnostic advertising) just isn’t right for me personally.

Yeah… It’s all Federated Media’s fault that no one wants an ad on your stupid blog. When was the last time Wil Wheaton was relevant again? Oh right… Never…

Now this part really gets me…

I decided over the weekend that it’s just not right for me. My focus here needs to be on enjoying writing in my blog (the whole reason I started it) instead of worrying whether the ads are running and earning and not being lame. While I feel like I may be leaving a bit of money on the table, a cost/benefit analysis says it’s not worth the constant headaches to try and make it work.

What constant headaches? You throw the ads up and if they make money, they make money. If they don’t, they don’t. It’s one thing to wonder about the content of the ads, but saying that having them at all is a hassle is just flat out dumb.

He wraps it up with an even bigger whopper…

I’m very happy with the RSS advertising that Feedburner puts into my RSS stream, and those are actually returning a meaningful amount of college fund revenue, so that’s going to stick around, but for the foreseeable future, there won’t be any actual advertising on my blog.

Oh yeah… Because they were beating a path to your door to advertise there to begin with.

Get a grip dude.

via Valleywag