One issue the article doesn’t touch on is how many surfers use ad-blocking software on their web browsers to block ads entirely.

Good point, Triumph. I keep forgetting the Web has ads. But I do the same with TV.

Premium ad sales have been slow of late but I've been advised to actually raise prices. Since the non-premium ads, Google, and whatnot are doing well, I'm holding out for now.

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has decided not to fire two campaign bloggers who had...

Bloggers who are upset because they "didn't get their share and someone else did" are saying they want money from the campaign and they will write unpleasant things about the campaign if they don't get the money.

From the campaign's perspective, this really should be a cheap date. I don't know what Edwards was paying his two former campaign bloggers, but apparently for $65 and $150 per week, he can make two liberal bloggers think highly of him. He's has the price point and now just needs to see if it is worth it to him. I suspect buying some liberal blogs at these rates would be cheaper than even one campaign blogger.

James,
I don't want to threaten your rice bowl, but while I see 'ADVERTISERS' and 'Premium Left', I don't see any ads. So even if I wanted to 'be nice' to you and click through, I couldn't.

Well, BlogAds and Google are counting actual ad impressions, not page views. I'm not sure how the filters work, though, so it's possible they're being "served" but not seen.

I'm sure that it is relatively small, but I would guess that people who spend a lot of time getting political information from blogs are relatively sophisticated web users and employ ad-blocking software extensively.

I dont think that there is a way for sites to know if a user has Ad-Block or a greasemonkey script enabled, so the numbers of site visitors is probably overcounting people who actually see the ad.

Absolutely! And I figure any money PETA pays us is money certainly going to be put to better use. Really, it's a humanitarian service.