Weblog advertising

Paolo Valdemarin: "Putting ads on your blog would suddenly make the monetary terms important as well. Will this influence the relationship between bloggers?"

Though I have a degree in graphics and advertising I've always been against advertising. Just my socialist background finds them distasteful. It's whoever can spend enough money fooling people that their can of beans is best, not that that can is best for the person. Trickery, slight of hand, bending the truth, that's what ads are for. Though the text ads on Google are quite handy. I don't really mind the ads on metaFilter they seem fairly harmless.

If ads start to plague blogs, the near-utopian world we have right now may disappear. The point of blogging is not to make money from eye-balls, not IMO. It maybe to make money from thought and intellect or reputation sure, nothing wrong with making money. But CPMs are eye-ball traffic, lowest common denominator.

Jeff Barr of Syndic8 rejected adult text ads. His site wouldn't suit such ads, for sure. But if he became desperate, if he was offered a deal he couldn't refuse... Say that to the common or garden blogger and soon, I see the day that blogs will become like so many tawdry sites trying to capture as much small change from ads as possible. That's not why I blog. Or, why I mainly surf around blogs.

I don't think I'd link to sites with ads. Or, I'd think twice about it. Anyway, what if I'm reading a blog through it's RSS feed? I'd never see ads, or would I? Ooooo! That would piss me off! Unless I wanted RSS ads.

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