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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Adsense – Google’s Money Machine
Here’s my interview with one of the founders of Adsense — Eytan Elbaz. Here’s today’s New York Times: “You can see very, very quickly if anything is amiss,” said Mr. Fox, director of business product management at Google. Mr. Fox … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
Tagged adsense google, advertising system, economic slowdown, money machine, mr fox, rsquo
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My Traffic Has Gone Crazy
Every morning, I wake up and check my Adsense revenue. Normally it is around $1 at 7 a.m. This morning it was $39:42. I’m getting more than ten times my normal amount of traffic. Last hour I had 3,110 unique … Continue reading
Posted in Huma Abedin
Tagged amount of traffic, Google, Huma Abedin, tens of thousands, unique visitors
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What’s Going To Happen To Beth Jacob’s Kollel?
Rabbi Steven Weil raised the money for it but he’s leaving town. So who’s going to pay for the kollel (where married men get a stipend to study Torah all day, God, what I wouldn’t give for a gig like … Continue reading
Posted in Beth Jacob
Tagged Beth Jacob, groundswell, Kollel, shul
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I Go To The Shul Banquet
Preparation Video Post-Banquet Letdown For the past few weeks when people would ask me if I was going to the shul banquet, I gave a haughty and disdainful no. I was above that plebian fraternizing. It sounded really boring. I … Continue reading
Posted in David Suissa, Personal
Tagged baseball game, beverly hilton, jewish los angeles, luke ford, Moshav Band, two good friends
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David Suissa: ‘I Heart Shuvuot’
I got a sneak peak at excerpts of David Suissa’s column in next week’s Jewish Journal: In most suburban congregations, other than the occasional blintz offering, no one really talks about Shavout, but last week I had lunch with an … Continue reading
Posted in David Suissa, Satire
Tagged azure magazine, bagel factory, blintz, israel consulate, Jewish Journal, kosher restaurant, moroccan woman, Orthodox Union, shuvuot, vexing issues, yiddishkeit
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