Google AdSense: Stop Teasing Me with YouTube Revenue Sharing
What a tease!
So my Belly Button Window videos of my worldwide travels, One Laptop Per Child, and my daughter Hanalei, have found quite a following on YouTube. I have several videos with over 5,000 views:
- Windows XP on the XO Laptop
- OLPC Pedal Power – Human Power Machine for XO Laptop
- Michael Jackson is Alive! He’s a Traffic Cop in Abuja, Nigeria
- OLPC XO Challenge: XO-1.5 vs. Overclocked XO-1.0
- XO-1.5 Laptop Gnome & Sugar Dual Boot Demo
- Landing at Lagos, Nigeria – Murtala Muhammed International Airport
- Sugar on a Stick on HP Mini Note
Each time a new video crosses the multi-thousand viewership, YouTube sends me an email like this:
Read MoreIntroducing Archer Sophia Vota
Hanalei’s little sister has arrived! Please welcome Archer Sophia Vota, the newest edition to the Vota family. She came into this world this evening as her mom was laughing, and now she can’t stop crying. Yet her parents and her family are overjoyed by this new bundle of love. Archer…
Read MoreApple iPhone Boarding Pass: United Airlines Innovation
Swipe your phone, board the plane
It’s not often that you can use the words “innovation” and “United Airlines” in the same sentence, without a “lack of” first – but with the new iPhone boarding pass, you can, and you will!
Last week, I was headed to Inveneo’s offices in San Francisco for my bi-monthly check-in with the team. Before I ran out the door, I skipped one step that we’re all familiar with – the boarding pass printing.
Read MorePetworth Poop Patrol Featured in Washington Post
Poop patrolling in Grant Circle
Some Washingtonians take the matter into their own hands in a more productive way. Wayan Vota lives in Petworth. He enjoys walking his dog, Taxi (a “Muttus Americanus,” Wayan said), in Grant Circle. He was alarmed by how much orphan poo they encountered.
“I started picking up other dogs’ poo, too,” Wayan said. “Finally, I got very annoyed, and on a very cold morning last year decided to pick up as much as I could and see how much it weighed.” He told his friends it weighed five to six pounds.
“No one believed me,” Wayan said. And since it was only an estimate, he had no absolute proof. So a month or two later, he went on another poop roundup. This time he videotaped the weigh-in. The bulging Safeway bag weighed a staggering 13 pounds.
Read MoreHow to Get a Free River Birch Tree in Washington DC
My new river birch tree
I’ve always wanted a tree in my back yard. While my neighbourhood, Petworth, has beautiful old trees, all I have is a tree stump in my garden. The previous owners of my house cut down the tree that was in my yard, and now my west-facing back yard gets hot! in the summer.
A tree in my yard would provide shade, visual interest, a place for birds, and be one small contribution to cooling the District of Columbia, replacing its tree cover, and reducing rain runoff. That last reason, runoff, is where the District Department of Environment comes in.
Petworth, like much of old Washington, DC, is on a single sewer line system, which means that when it rains, the rain water goes into the sewer system and overwhelms the Blue Plains water treatment plant. In the past, they just dumped raw sewage into the Potomac. Now the city is trying to stop this practice at its source – the hundreds of thousands of downspouts across DC.
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