I updated the original subscribe plugin, recently, using the database to store the subscriber list instead of a text file, as well as to require confirmation of all (un)subscription requests. It includes a management page to install the database tables, and to manage the list of subscribers. Check out the Subscribe2 beta announcement for the download link.

What is an AdSense Jail?: Every found yourself in one? I know I have! [EDIT] Let me explain a little. For those of you that advertise on your blogs, have you ever gotten into the situation where one fine morning your blog starts to generate a substantially large sum of revenue because of something you wrote (I mean substantial, really) and then you update your blog and the revenue dissappears as suddenly as it appeared? Once this happens to you more than a couple of times, and you stumble upon one of those again, you are afraid to update the blog till the deluge dissappears. This is what I term a “Jail”. The idea came to me from PRI. They have a bunch of recorded shows on a CD called “Driveway Moments” where you’re driving home, listening to a story on your local NPR station. Suddenly, you find yourself in […]