PAULA NEAL MOONEY

If you're a Google Adsense user who gets their Google Adsense money direct-deposited in your checking account -- have you received your Google Adsense March 2009 earnings yet in your bank account today, April 28, 2009? Google Adsense usually comes like clockwork into our bank accounts, usually with the money being direct-deposited already by the 24th or 25th of the month. So today is April 28, 2009 -- what gives, Google Adsense? Hopefully, you, Google Adsense, giving soon to our bank accounts! And prayerfully not one of those Google Adsense "on hold" accidental payment bugs like Jensense wrote about in the past. Show me the money!

I logged onto my Amazon account yesterday and was delighted to see sales, but then saddened when I realized what people were buying in droves: surgical face masks and medical masks, in hopes of preventing swine flu. This Cardinal N95 Particulate Respirators Surgical, Dust & Avian & Swine Flu Mask, 20 Box says it's for the swine flu: Medical Masks Can Only Prevent Swine Flu... ...if you're close to a person who has it -- but the swine flu expert on NBC Nightly News last night (or was it Dr. Oz on The View talking about the medical masks?) said that the medical masks won't really help prevent the spread of swine flu in general. So I don't know if people buying all these medical masks to try and prevent swine flu will really help or not. I guess it can't hurt, I'm assuming. Dr. Oz talked about how a sneeze can travel 100 miles per hour -- and that some of the swine flu particles can make it past the mask. And Dr. Oz said people shouldn't rush out and b...

Twitter is changing the way we do business, how we get our news and communicate with one another. Barbara Walters just signed up for a free Twitter account today and sent her first Tweet online. But one of the coolest things on Twitter when you log in and go to the home page, on the right-hand side of the page you'll see below the Twiter search box a "Trending Topics" that lists 10 topics that are hot and buzzing on Twitter at the time. That's how I found out that Stephen Hawking was ill. And I learned about some new Tweetie Mac app that's hot now. So especially if you write about breaking news, Twitter is one more way to find out what's breaking and write about it first possibly. If you're on Twitter anyway a lot, it's a good way to see what people are Tweeting a lot about -- and I'll bet you a "dollar to a doughnut" as my Mommy used to say -- that Twitter will keep breaking news before the traditional websites do. Like the time the pe...

Barbara Walters is now on Twitter , and I just became one of her followers. Barbara's specific Twitter page is listed at http://twitter.com/barbarajwalters -- and she's got about 17 followers as of this writing. You just know that's going to be up to half a million soon. It was so funny when Whoopi Goldberg told Barbara not to give out her Twitter page name because everyone would have it -- she sounded like a scared old anti-techie lady. And Whoopi is pissed at Twitter for letting fakers adopt her persona. But I'll bet you those fake Whoopi Twitter pages will be gone by days' end too. Come, on Whoopi, don't be afraid of Twitter! barbara walters twitter,barbra walters twitter,barbara walters on twitter,whoopi twitter,whoopi goldber twitter,whoopi on twitter

On April 15th or 16th 2009, one of my husband's colleagues was on one of my websites when she purchased a new Kindle 2 and cover for a retiring coworker. Funny, I later saw the Kindle 2 leather cover coming thru my Amazon Associates account -- but not the $35.99 due me, an Amazon Associate, for the Kindle 2 purchased thru my website. That led me to wonder: Does Amazon really pay its Associates for all the sales they make? Trying to explain the short-fall, I thought of many things: Their Amazon cookie expires in 24 hours, but she purchased it right away, not putting it in her shopping cart first then coming back to it. Maybe the company's computers strips Amaazon's Associates cookies -- but that doesn't explain why the Kindle 2 leather cover came thru. I guess the real question is: Is Amazon still paying $35.99 referral fees to Amazon Associates who sell them? Come to think of it, I haven't seen Kindle sales coming thru my account since February -- and I see two Kind...

Twitter is such an amazing thing, and now that Oprah's onboard, lots of regular people are too. I finally got on board after realizing I didn't have an account on Twitter. So now I'm all over discovering ways that people are trying to make money on Twitter -- which seems to be the buzz-worthy new affiliate marketing place to pitch products. But instead of pretending to be a regular person and using Mag Pie pay-per-Tweet type services that have drawn the wrath of people online and inspired "How to Sell Your Soul on Twitter" type of pieces getting lots of hits on Digg, ReadWriteWeb and TechMeme -- I'm more inspired by people who are more up-front about finding the people who might be looking to buy stuff on Twitter. Like if you do a Twitter search on "coupon" you'll find lots of people have set up Twitter accounts focusing on finding good deals, and have gained good followers, targeted and the ones who want to know these deals and have them sent to...

I just got some scam email titled "Fiscal Activity Tax Refund" -- I'm surprised Gmail didn't send it to my SPAM folder -- claiming I'm due some kind of tax refund: After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund under section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Tax refund value is $189.60. Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 6-9 days in order to IWP the data received. If u don't receive your refund within 9 business days from the original IRS mailing date shown, you can start a refund trace online. Yeah, right. I already know I owe the IRS, so nice try. According to Who.Is , the website link that they want you to click on is from the Netherlands. Another one for the Internet FBI to track down...