It’s been years since I have had a snow day. Actually, the last time was my freshman year of college back in January of 1997…which was almost a decade ago…wow.

Because of the snow, I have been locked up in my house all day, hanging with my girlfriend and cruising the Internet looking for something work related to do. I ended up building a couple of Squidoo lenses today – one that lists the video blog wrap-ups we did at work and one that aggregates various viral and word of mouth marketing RSS feeds.

A few months after building my first Squidoo lens, I will admit I have mixed feelings about the site. I don’t really think there is all that much money to be made on Squidoo, and it seems like Squidoo pages really don’t pull much weight in the search engines. On the positive end, I do see Squidoo as a good place to put together resources and group together various links you find. As I have mentioned before, I really like the idea of people doing research and then aggregating the results in one location where other people can benefit from the research that was done.

One big complaint I do have is the wild number of AdSense ads that appear on the lenses I created. I mean, eight ads on one page? If I was trying to make money on my lenses, that would be alright. But I’m not and it makes the page look a little more spammy than I would like. I wish there was a way to turn down the AdSense a tad.