Here are some changes I’ve made to my site, followed by an interesting graph about the state of the blogosphere.

People subscribed to my RSS feed won’t notice changes made to my sidebar, but there have been several this morning. First, I got rid of the Google Adsense. It was supposed to be contextual advertising, but it was often not very specific in connection to the particular post it was near. I’ve had 1300 page impressions in the week since I put the ads on this site and not one person has clicked on a single ad. Ok, good learning experience. A friend pointed out that my readers are probably particularly sophisticated, and thus uninterested in the ads. Hey, that’s you, particularly sophisticated!

Second, I moved my little cluster map up to the top of my sidebar. I think it’s pretty interesting to see where people have been visiting this site from lately. Don’t you? Click on the map to zoom in for more detail. You can get your own map easily at Clustermap.com.

Furthermore, I removed the link I had on the top of the sidebar to LiveMarks. I think it’s great fun, but just didn’t want to link to it anymore.

Finally, check this out. Technorati just released their newest “State of the Blogosphere” report. I found this graph particularly interesting and thought I’d share it with you. (Click on it to enlarge)