By: David Miller

David Miller — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 23:03:54 +0000

I once considered “monetizing” one of my blogs just for the novelty of it (not expecting to make more than a nickle off of it in any given year) but then decided that I’d rather not muddy the waters of my own writing by making it look like I have anything to gain (financially) from what I write.
In the end I have committed to never do that myself and also to rarely visit sites that do. Blogging for me is sharing ideas to improve them. Once my bank account gets involved there are too many forces at work that make my ideas look cheap and encourage me to cheapen my ideas in the in interest of getting rich (anything to make it more than $0.05 per year)

By: D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:14:30 +0000

Yeah. I get the same gut-wrenching revulsion building up everything I hear the “M” word. Like something has no value unless you can squeeze cold, hard cash out of it. You know, sometimes the value is in the stuff that goes on _around_ the thing, rather than in the thing itself…

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By: David Miller

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