Sunday, September 26, 2004
(2:40 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Finance Policy
Belle's husband John brings up a good point. Would the placement of ads on one's blog represent a sale of one's soul, and if so, would one be securing an appropriately high price for said soul? I have experimented with having various Amazon wishlists available for my readers to use, but to my knowledge, only one reader has ever taken advantage of them, and that was under somewhat unusual circumstances. In addition, I have long had a PayPal donation link available, but the only PayPal payment I have ever received was when Robb generously elected to reimburse what I paid for the HaloScan upgrade. (I'm pretty sure that was pre-link, too.) So while I'm getting more than my fair share of both symbolic capital (acclaim, respect, etc.) and jouissance (sleeping with the dozens of women who proposition me every day because they figure my fingers must be pretty nimble after all this typing), I am not profiting in the only way that really matters: financially.So would you guys click on ads if I put them up? Would you hate me forever and stop reading? On another note, I recently learned that my remarks apropos of Jodi Belcher's pregnancy ("I don't normally approve of pregnancy, but congratulations") lost us a reader. And so, since I'm not actually going to put ads up on The Weblog even if it turns out that all my readers think it's a great idea, let's shift gears slightly: What have I said that has most pissed you off? If you stopped reading for a while, what caused you to stop reading, and what drew you back? Although I normally don't think that people talk about me when I'm not there, do you know anyone who has quit reading because I'm such an asshole? Because Anthony's such an asshole? Because Robb doesn't post his CD-change escapades anymore?
I need to know. Thanks.
