It is interesting that Tim Bray is getting rid of AdSense essentially for the same reasons that I complained about earlier.

He says:

I’m not surprised the revenue is low, the ads are lame and uninteresting, I wouldn’t click on ’em either.

which is exactly how I feel. It seems many people are annoyed at the “blogging” ads appearing on their blogs: perhaps Google could allow publishes to specify their own stop-word to avoid being targetted by those ads.

Anyway, my own targetting software is working as well as AdSense now. For instance, on my Computer Science Gansta Rap entry I'm getting ads for books about LL Cool J and Run DMC. On the other hand my ROME sightings entry is generating links to every book and DVD about Rome (the place, not the Java library). I'm not sure how I'd fix that one..