Excerpt of an e-mail from WidgetBucks:

International CPM Ads

Here’s an upcoming feature. In early December, we will start serving CPM ads to the non-U.S./Canada traffic. This will give you revenue, per impression, for your site visitors who come from other countries. This is designed to help publishers who have a blend of traffic from a variety of countries.

Our system will do the geo-location for you, determining where the visitor is coming from. Then we’ll either show the regular pay-per-click widget (to visitors from the U.S. and Canada) or show an ad that pays per impression (to visitors from other countries). You’ll see a new column, called “CPM Revenue” in your earnings reports.

As far as I know, and I don’t keep up to date on changes like this very often, this is a good thing. Last I heard Widgetbucks was not going to count traffic from international visitors at all. I also remember reading that this would be the best thing for Widget bucks to do. I do apologize but I can’t remember the person who said this. Nonetheless, it looks like Widgetbucks is changing around to accommodate the complaints of bloggers.

Derren Brown is now on television here in the United States on the Sci-Fi Channel.  If you don’t know who Derren Brown is you should visit the following or the above website right now.
DerrenBrown.co.uk

Originally Derren Brown was only available on Channel 4 in the UK and I was only able to watch his work in scattered places across the web.  Apparently Derren is already very popular and well known in the UK and has written a few books: Trick of the Mind. So based on his previous success in the UK I know Derren Brown will definitely catch on in the US.

I like Derren Brown’s work for a number of reasons. First of all, before watching him I was already very interested in hypnosis and neuro-linguistic programming. And after watching his work for a little while I realized how original he was in the way he twisted old methods and tricks. He is not like mainstream US magicians today such as Chris Angel, who are using tricks verbatim without improving or changing them. Derren uses techniques from both hypnosis and NLP while also including a little magic from time to time. This mix gives viewers and audience members a new and creative performance every time.

So if you like trickery, persuasion, manipulation, etc… Check out Derren Brown on the Sci-Fi Channel

Feel free to  share your  thoughts on Derren Brown or even your interest in what he does.  Either comment or e-mail me at thoughttrain[at]thoughtsponge.com…