[Note on] Advertising on It, Is In Fact?
[Was writing an update to the original entry and deleted it instead. Here it is again, roughly.]
Am seriously thinking of putting advertising on this blog, as well as another whose development I’m playing around with and possibly unveiling one day. Any thoughts? Please let me know.
Otherwise, I look forward to raking in about seven dollars a year on this site, if my analytics are any indication.
Update: I was inspired to write this because I’d noticed a popular blogger/Twitter user/magazine editor started to include Amazon Associates links in his posts. Several other journalists whom I’ve been following have long incorporated Google AdSense, Amazon Associates, and other advertising services. I kind of like how Jason Kottke’s begun doing weekly sponsor shout-outs the way that television personalities in the ’50s used to turn away from the scene and launch into a commercial without missing a beat. I guess all members of the media are searching for that golden “model” of economic sustainability these days. Now we can include the cover of the New York Times in that effort. Although, to be fair, the Times’s own City Room blog found evidence that front-page ads at the Times are nothing new. Like this one, featured prominently in its post:
And while I’m at it, pssst, hey kids, try Cheerios and Dentyne to help you get “good red blood.”
Why not? A friend got sponsorship from Green Mountain for hers: http://www.turninghoustongreen.com even though she doesn’t throw a sales pitch in for the company in her articles. Altruism is great and noble; getting paid for it is also not bad.