While moving to the new domain and new name I’ve been finding posts that I really liked when I first wrote them. So I have decided to repost them as part of a regular Sunday feature for the next little while. At the bottom of the repost I will also update the original post with any new thoughts that I might have had since orginally publishing the selected post; along with any corrections that need to be made.
Originally posted February 1, 2007
Almost since the first AdSense panel was displayed on a blogger’s page the question of advertising and blogging has been a simmering issue that raises its head every once in awhile. The last time there was a great big blowup in the blogosphere over the ethics of advertising on blogs it was due to the launch of services like PayPerPost and ReviewME.
The battle lines where drawn around three separate camps on the issue. There were the purists who said that advertising of any kind had no place on blogs. We were apparently suppose to spend our time writing and eat the cost of having a site to display those thoughts. We were suppose to be professional without getting any of the benefits of that growing professionalism other than a nice warm and fuzzy feeling.
The second camp recognized that hosting bills and the such couldn’t be paid with warm and fuzzy; and felt there was nothing wrong with accepting sponsorships, sidebar ads and Google AdSense. This way bills got paid and if there was anything left over after that then it was a bonus. Which for some those bonus grew; and continue to grow, into a nice livelihood as it should for a professional. Read more …
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