Some time ago I setup an online bookshop with Amazon.co.uk and their aStore tool. It’s not had much love for the last six months, but I’m going to be putting a fair bit more time into it in the next couple of weeks. If you have any suggestions for products or books that should be featured, please let me know in the comments.

The observant will also notice that as of today, at the bottom of each post above the comments is a little ‘tag cloud’ of relevant Amazon products. Amazon’s algorithms are a little whacky at times, so it might take a while for genuinely useful products to show up. I’m tempted to change this into something more traditional, but I want to see how this new kind of advertising might work.

I also intend in the next few weeks to introduce a very small Google AdSense block onto individual story pages placed between the headline and the article body. If you’re reading this site through the feed - and if you can’t or don’t want to use a feed reader, you can now subscribe to feed updates via email using the form in the sidebar - you won’t see any adverts, ever.

These moves are just meant for the 11,000+ people who pass by here every year without ever stopping by again: they obviously didn’t get any value out of what I wrote, so perhaps somebody else can help them.

If people find these moves really intrusive, I’ll obviously reconsider them.