I guess everyone knows about the risks of a late-in-life pregnancy. Now with a new study published it gets more and more into a direction thatthe age of mother and father andeven a certain age difference between mother and fathercan lead to risk not only the Down-Syndrome in a newborn child but also an autistic child in the future.The older a mother gives birth to a baby, the more likely it will develop autistic characters. A 40 year old mother has a 50% greater chance of having an autistic child than a mother in the age of 25 - 29 years.The risk of fathers which are older than 40 years is only   read more

The next Nursery Song for this Music Monday is I'm a little Tea Pot.   read more

Due to my current issues with the Internet Service Provider P1 WiMax (slow connections, several reloads until widgets are loaded, commenting in forums is a pain because of the time outs) which let me do only occasionally dropping in EntreCard with one or two of my blogs, i removed my Dropaholics widget rather late :)Will have a look that i can honor my Top Droppers in the Sidebar with a RSS-FEED as soon as the internet connection is stable again in the coming days.Has there been already a redirect issue like last time as the Dropaholic domain expired?   read more

In my previous post about Network Ads i complained about the low payout for publishers and the influence of my existing campaign advertisers. After i wrote that article i thought about it and how CMF Ads could make it a successful Network ad for both parties - Publishers as well as Advertisers.What if we just fill the empty ad slots with Network ads instead of CMF House Ads?If a widget is already full, Network ads would not show up until one slot would be empty (otherwise it hurts the actual advertisers).In this case, you could run the CMF House ad (if you don't like any of the existing Network   read more

Yesterday CMF Ads launched Network Ads within their System. It's a new way to get your name out in the blogosphere. With a Network Ads you can advertise on over 640 blogs for a time period of 30 days and it costs only 10$ (similar to Adgitize, mostly rotating ads, just no need to click on your ads!).Is this good or bad news for Publishers?There are different opinions as it depends how many page views your blog gets in these 30 days, which ad price you have set and how many ad slots are available or empty! The more ad slots available, the better your "return" for each Network Ad. This said, perhaps   read more

As i logged in my EntreCard Dashboard to see which ads have been auto-approved in the last days i came across these ad on the left.This is NOT an ad for a blog. This is an ad for Sponsored Tweets from Izea. It means it's an affiliate ad. If i would run this ad on my blog, you would be redirected to Sponsored Tweets Sign-up page.It's similar to the ads which showed up in the previous month. Someone just edited the landing page and EntreCard does not check this change of your landing page!If you see this ad in your advertiser queue, PLEASE REPORT IT to EntreCard.So that they can delete this blog   read more

You can access the Adgitize website only with the Adgitize.net url. On the forum they posted this announcement:Just a notice to those who do not know already, the Adgitize server is currently down. We are looking into the problem now and hoping to have it back online soon. We're sorry for the inconvenience.Here is the link to this postSome further messages from the Adgitize support and the reason why i didn't get any response to my e-mail:Very frustrating, but no updates as of yet. Hoping that Monday morning will bring about some positive responses from our server. Again huge apologies   read more

Adgitize seems to be down since 10 pm Malaysian time (2 pm GMT). That means i can't renew my ad which will expire in the next 12 hours and i didn't click my 50 ads too.Additionally the ads are not displayed on our blogs which means our page and ad views will be lower than normal. Until now i can't see any message on Adgitize's Blog which would indicate how long the website will be offline or what has been the cause for this unexpected downtime. In the past Ken Brown usually informed us about this kind of interruption.So what are you going to do today (without Adgitize)? :)   read more

A Austrian study found that if men sharing a bed with a bed mate it affects their mental ability the next day.Although the men reported they had slept better with a partner, they fared worse in the tests, with their results suggesting they actually had more disturbed sleep.Both sexes had a more disturbed night's sleep when they shared their bed. But women apparently managed to sleep more deeply when they did eventually drop off, since they claimed to be more refreshed than their sleep time suggested. Their stress hormone levels and mental scores did not suffer to the same extent as the   read more

I came across this trailer while scanning through one of my lists last week.This visually stunning new movie simultaneously follows four babies around the world - from first breath to first steps. From Mongolia to Namibia to San Francisco to Tokyo, Babies joyfully captures on film the earliest stages of the journey of humanity that are at once unique and universal to us all.See the world of the babies and their development from another ankle as we never could experience how babies around the desert are raised up.The documentary shall be released in April 2010, hopefully some cinemas will show   read more