I’ve been spending a lot of time reading great posts on other blogs, so I’d like to share them with you.

Of Music and Money
If you are interested in the music scene, and if you have read mine, you’ll know that I’m interested in how the music companies are faring in the new world of social media! But recently I read this excellent (and long) article about how groups, singers and other performers are finding that they no longer need to issue records and cd through the big four record companies. Radiohead is finding a new channel for its music, both free AND paid (yes, PAID!). They join a long list that now includes Prince amongst many others.

Hands-up: Who doesn’t use Adsense anymore?
There’s also a very interesting discussion going on at ProBlogger on the value of Adsense on certain blogs. Problogger and John Chow have both removed Adsense from their blogs citing poor performance, low clickthrus, low payments, and competition from advertisers… Actually, I’ve written about Adsense as a way to send visitors away from your blog! Three out of five of my Gurus no longer use it!

Boosting your Income: Dividends, Selling, and Profits!
Some of the other things that I’ve been thinking about include Tyler noting how some companies that make cool things are able to raise their dividends, and Internet Income Guy is examining how to blog profitably, and CashQuests has some great new posts, esp. on how to sell your blog for a $1000!

That’s it!

On my internet travels, I came across this rather odd product. It’s called ‘Adhancer’ from adhancer.com.

Adhancer: Mail to Money?
Here’s what it does. Remember those 1,350 mails in your spam mail folder, well, this product takes those messages and cranks out HTML pages from each post. The making money twist is quite simple: it turns those emails into financial revenue by displaying ads from companies like Google AdSense, or Yahoo Publisher. Voila! Spam in your mailbox becomes dollars in your bank account!

Requirements
To do this marvel, you will need a number of things: a website and domain name with email. It runs on Unix/Linux hosting on PHP4.3.2 with mySQL 3.x and Zend Optimizer 2 as a minimum. Cron jobs would also be helpful. To make money, you’ll need an Ad Publishing company whose code you can use in the application.

Benefits and cautions
Of course, there is the risk that you will end up creating junk pages or worse ‘spam’ pages that will get you booted off the ad program you are using. Some ad vendors take spam and junk seriously. You could find your website blacklisted, your earnings gone…

However, the application could work with those newsletters and other emails that you get, a lot of stuff that you consider ‘quasi-spam’ because you can’t remember how to get off the mailing list, or even when you subscribed.

You know the stuff, you usually hit ‘spam’ when it comes in, but you remember you subscribed to it at some time. That would be a much better way to use the mails rather than let the mails sit in your spambox. And the Ad vendor wouldn’t likely consider them spam, as they are legitimate emails, newsletters, and so on. My Yahoo! mailbox is likely filled with a lot of good content for that kind of website.

What’s more interesting, though, is that almost any email could be turned into a website page this way… letters to friends, mailing lists, etc., there really is no limit. Check out the demo.

There is only one problem: the price $39.95 PER Domain. Without a discernible income source, it might be difficult to justify ponying up the initial investment. Unless you have a sure fire way. You interested to try, let me know!

Disclaimer: none, I just found this on the Internet. Thought it was interesting.