Comments on: W48: Selling Myself, Short

By: martha

martha — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:50:46 +0000

God- my first cameo on your blog and it’s as a flake! Oops. Seriously we should hang out. You and I and lisa doing something fun?

By: Urban Scout

Urban Scout — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:37:57 +0000

Do you really make any money with AdSense?

Also, how do I set up a feedburner subscribe button on my sidebar?

By: Hobo Stripper

Hobo Stripper — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:27:49 +0000

Yeah, adsense is golden.

By: Dragon

Dragon — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:49:25 +0000

do whatcha gotta. Dragon

By: John

John — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:28:23 +0000

I understand your decision to put ads on the site and to be honest the ads dont really bother me. What does concern me though is that we dont have any alernative to our current way of life to offer. As someone that does a lot of activism I struggle when people ask me “what can I do?” and normally talk about gardening, working less etc. I am able to devote a lot of my time to learning to grow food and other useful techniques because I’m living at home and working 5 - 10 hours a week. Most people though can’t do that.

As your experience has shown its virtually impossible to survive outside the system at the moment and even finding the time and peopel to develop long term alternatives for when this system crashes is very difficult. I think that your message and similar messages will become very relevant in the next 5 - 15 years but spreading the message and not participating in the current system will be very difficult until then.

By: Dungan

Dungan — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:15:45 +0000

Ain’t nothing wrong with cash money. You deserve more of it, imho. but you gotta believe that too. times like this, being stuck between two paradigms (aka civilization and living like a human being) can cause us to shoot ourselves in the foot. You should be proud of the work you do here. Now go buy yourself something nice and help out the economy while you’re at it.

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:30:17 +0000

Oh, and hey, with the CafePress thing? Maybe you could get people to donate artwork for it. Something with a rewilding theme. I bet it would do better if you offered designs that had a broader appeal rather than something that had most of your store visitors going “WTF is ‘rewilding’?” Nature themes? Backhanded environmental slogans? I dunno.

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:28:35 +0000

I am the last person who would condemn you for monetizing your blog in any way. Writing in this thing is work, and we have a money-based economy. It is not unreasonable to want payment for your efforts even if it is not specifically a wage or a direct pay-for-service arrangement.

I have a blog (not the one in the website link, LJs aren’t generally considered “blogs”) and am tweaking the ad situation with it right now. I use Google AdSense and some other Google-related webmaster stuff as well. Also, you might want to visit the Wordpress.org page and their plugin section (under the “Extend” link) because they have plugins there that help with search engine optimization (SEO).

If you get the SEO thing figured out then you can get away with having fewer ads because they’ll bring in more revenue. Good luck.

By: TrackHousingScout

TrackHousingScout — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:32:05 +0000

I don’t know how he does it, but the cat over at cryptogon.com brings in a pretty penny through donations and other means. Here’s a recap of his Feb. coinage:

http://cryptogon.com/?p=2149

(He posts too much financial crap for my liking…but sometimes he has good stuff)

By: Peter K

Peter K — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:22:26 +0000

Google Ads are also pretty good for bloggers trying to get some additional cash flow. I would recommend it. I am working on that millionaire thing. I am involved with something, that if it gets bought out by large company in a few years, I think you could get that 100 million dollars.