R.K. Milholland has just signed up for Project Wonderful, and there's a banner spot at the top of Something Positive.
Minimum bid is five bucks per day, and adverts are approved by hand. Randy's letting the ad box run until the 15th on a trial basis.
This is pretty big. Here's hoping it pulls more advertisers into the system.

At the start of this month, I passed the five hundred dollar mark for money spent on advertising via Project Wonderful. At this benchmark, here are my experiences from an advertiser's point of view.

We all know now that a mass-bidding system is on the way, because Ryan has said so himself in our interview. Here are some of the possible effects, both positive and negative, of such a system. Please do feel free to comment and add your own, or refute any of the possible effects I've come up with.

Version 0.11 of the Mass Bidding Engine is now available, and despite only being able to bid on one ad type at a time, it's a damn sight faster and more stable than yesterday's release.

Get the binary, source code and documentation here.

You can find the first release of the unofficial Project Wonderful mass-bidding software here.
If we can find a way to enter the ending date without disabling JavaScript, then this will become much more useful. If anybody knows of a way, feel free to comment.

Placing lots of bids in Project Wonderful is a tedious and repetitive job. And, like any tedious and repetitive job, it's natural to try to find faster ways of doing it. Even if you only end up saving a couple of seconds per bid, multiply that by a couple of hundred bids and it all adds up.
About a week ago, I placed four hundred one-penny bids for a seperate endeavour of mine, using my Nostromo and a pair of macros I'd created for Project Wonderful. I then (yes, after the fact, because that's just the way I roll) E-mailed Ryan to ask him if doing this sort of thing (and talking about it on PWT) was acceptable under Project Wonderful's TOS.
He replied back in the affirmative (and said he was nearly done with the interview questions, but that's a story for another time), so I share my keyboard macros with you here today.
These macros were created for use with a Belkin Nostromo, which is kind of like a little baby keyboard, programmable and application-sensitive. It's mostly used for gaming, but I've used mine more for work stuff - things like showing and hiding menus in Flash, PhotoShop and DreamWeaver, typing a specific signature into GMail and the like. The commands should be similar in any macro program, such as RemoteKeys or AutoHotKey.

Last week I E-mailed Ryan North, creator of Project Wonderful, and asked if he'd mind giving an interview.  He said sure, why not - so here's your chance to ask a question and share the answer with everyone!
I'd like to know what questions you'd like to ask Ryan.  After a week, I'll take the most popular questions and perform the interview, and post the transcript here.
Please comment with your questions, or votes for questions, and we'll see what we come up with.
(again, if you're having problems posting or if your posts are marked as spam, please E-mail me at admin(at)projectwonderfultalk(dot)com and I'll tune the antispam filters accordingly)

One principle that seems to be evident in Project Wonderful (and here on PWT) is "We're all in this together."  But what happens when an advertiser or publisher decides that it'd be in their best interests to play some malicious mischief?

There's no doubt by now that for the webcomics industry, Project Wonderful beats the Google competitor hands down.  But it still lacks a few things that Google can offer - things that, if they were implemented, could persuade more advertisers to sign up.
While it's nice to have other webcomics advertised on your site and it's wonderful to be part of such an indie community, I think it'd be great if we could get some big businesses to invest some of their mammoth advertising budget into our system.
So, how do we persuade them to come and give us their money?  Hit "Read More" for some of my thoughts, and don't be shy to comment with your own.

Since the $0.00 bids were altered and one-penny bids were introduced, we should hopefully see far fewer people battling over the free slots.  I think this is a good thing, as lots of folks (myself included) were spending far too much time trying to dominate the "free" market by placing zero-dollar ads on as many pages as they could.  But now you can get a whole year of advertising for $3.65, you have to ask yourself - how much is my time worth?