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Filthy lucre, cont.

3 comments on Filthy lucre, cont.

Filthy lucre, cont.

: Continuing action in the comments below and in Rushkoff’s post. See also Ken Layne’s reaction to what Rushkoff wrote.

: See also Ed Cone and Dave Winer. Fred Wilson, too.

3 responses to “Filthy lucre, cont.”

  1. Jeff Sharlet Avatar
    Jeff Sharlet

    I run two websites, one more bloggish than the other. The first, started in 1999, doesn’t take ads, but it’s provided me with a bundle of money because I sold a book that developed the ideas of the site. The second doesn’t take ads because my publisher went out and got a grant to run the damn thing. So I’m not taking a side in this fight, just pointing out that ads/no-ads doesn’t cover the whole spectrum of possibilities.
    I would take issue with the “fact check your ass” idea, since for the most part it just doesn’t happen. Sure, Kos and Sullivan may get fact checked (though Reynolds doesn’t, far as I can tell), but there are a world of small and mid-size blogs that spew bs without reaction. One of my sites is for religion reporters, with a small daily readership that is nonetheless plenty big enough to include people who know better than me. They scream if I or someone else writes about some hot button like abortion, but they don’t really fact check. I’ve made mistakes and had no one correct me until I learned better myself, weeks later.
    Jeff, seems strange to me that you recognize the need for bloggers to get paid, but not fact checkers. Good fact checking won’t happen for free, which is why political mags like New Republic and The Nation make so many errors — they rely on interns.

  2. Jazz Avatar
    Jazz

    I’ve never had ads on any site I managed, including my present blogging site. By the same token, I don’t look down my nose at anyone who chooses to do so. That is, unless you consider linked graphics to sites that I personally endorse to be “ads”, but if I’m not being paid for it, I don’t think they are.

  3. Jeremy C. Wright Avatar
    Jeremy C. Wright

    I have ads on my site and I’m even experimenting with paid posts. Talk about “an end to something”, eh?
    Anyways, I’ve chimed in with my thoughts (I would have Trackback’d to your entry, but it didn’t work): http://www.ensight.org/archives/2004/09/05/blog-advertising-isnt-evil/