Sierra_Dad - 10:08 pm on Mar 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

Those who bang away at idea 1 will, for the most part, be the bottom-feeders of AdSense. Those who have a vision and a plan for idea 2 have the best fighting chance at living off AdSense.

Good comments here about thinking exponentially.

However, I'd be hesitant to state that there is only one way to do things. A site which grows linearly in the amount of content but exponentially in the amount of traffic can do quite well. In fact, they can do better than an exponentially expanding site with only linear traffic growth.

I am thinking exponentially in planning a future site, because it does play to some of my strengths. And I do not think that scraper sites are the only way of using exponential ideas or automation.