Comments on: No pay, no ads – explaining my blogging approach

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Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:59:19 +0000

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By: Cat

Cat — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:26:47 +0000

Bloggers v Journalists:

http://www.fastcompany.com/1605550/journalism-blogging-research-writers-online-e-publishing-future-ipad

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Gehen Brüssel die Journalisten aus? | europaeum — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:05:32 +0000

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By: rose22joh

rose22joh — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:54:28 +0000

I agree, no public funding, no corporate sponsorship, and with between 200-800 hits a day barely worth click-through advertising. Seems we’re not the only ones debating this stuff – right after the twitter discussion I got a DM from someone offering me $50 project software to generate an income from my blog.
I belong to British Mummy Bloggers. We’ve had the same debate there – would taking advertising mean that we couldn’t be honest about products/ services we mentioned (sometimes scathingly)? Would we get unsuitable advertising pictures of scantily clad women in the sidebar alongside the feminist dilectic?
So the BMB website came up with the “Mummy Bloggers do it with integrity” badge you can find on my blog (it’s under the About section as my #fail is that I can’t work out how to put that sort of thing on the sidebar).
Of course, mummy blogging faces an issue that euroblogging has yet to experience – “fake blogs” set up by companies to promote a specific product such as weightloss pills for losing the baby weight (and frankly that’s the mild end of the spectrum). I wonder what the euroblogging equivalent would be?

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:07:24 +0000

Agree 100%!

Someone asked me the other day whether my blog damaged what I do in any way. The answer to that is yes, surely some people would never employ me for web projects as a result… But then plenty of people would never have even come across my work if I didn’t write the blog, so in a way the blog actually generates paid work – indirectly.

By: Julien Frisch

Julien Frisch — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:01:55 +0000

Don’t want public funding either. If I did this for money it would be only half as funny.

Now I can write when I want, what I want, how I want. I don’t have to care for readers, I can step on people’s toes, and I can stop blogging at any moment if it bores me.

That is the luxury I enjoy in blogging.