The purpose of the Ads

The purpose of the ads really isn't to make money.  It takes thousands of views and people clicking on the ads to get me even a dollar.  And I simply don't have thousands of readers.

The real reason is it gives me a small amount of data about whether or not anyone is viewing my website.

And on Thursday and Friday of last week, I wasn't near the internet and couldn't go to my blog; however, nine other people (at most) viewed it.  So there is hope!

And its been viewed a total of fifty times in the last week (at least half by myself).

And my BR articles have a total of 3,200 reads.

So my  message is reaching a few people at least.

Following a blog

I'm having trouble figuring out how to follow blogs that aren't part of the "blogger" network.  

Specifically, I'd like to play closer attention to "http://www.thesportseconomist.com/" but can't seem to get it to work.  Lame.