Ok, so the good people at Google added a bunch of new features that make publishing AdSense easier. The one feature that I like a lot is that you can track domains, directories, or individual pages WITHOUT having to go and republish that page. You just need to go through the URL channel thingie in your account and it will track the stats for you. Unlike what I had hoped for, this feature does not give you back data. So, hurry and make your URL channels, so that your URL / URL-set specific data starts getting recorded.

* If you want to track all pages in a domain, track www.example.com
* If you want to track all pages in a particular directory, track www.example.com/widgets
* If you want to track a specific page, track www.example.com/index.html

And there is other new stuff on Google AdSense re: 5 new languages in AdSense for search and something about a test being performed with animated GIF ads, but that seems largely non-news.