Dee

good information.

Seriously – people actually care if it’s monetized? I don’t – all I care about is the information it contains. The Internet has been flooded with so many ads that I don’t notice them any more… it’s easy to read around them.

Looking back, I realize that it was comments made by other people that ultimately cause me to run for the hills to get away from a blog. It’s amazing how easy it is to lose trust with a blog owner simply because some commenters plant niggling doubts in your mind. Unfortunately, that’s not something you would have much control over.

If I have a fallout with a friend, I have to get away from them awhile. I find I do the same with blogs. The issues that disturbed me before aren’t bothering me so much anymore and I can go back with a different frame of mind. At least that’s my experience anyway.

When I disagree with something you have written I don’t get upset but rather it will cause me to reexamine my view on the subject. What would be the point of me subscribing if I agreed 100 percent?

Keep up the good work and damn the typos!
.-= Buck Weber´s last blog ..How to Make and Save Money With Pallets =-.

Lisa

I agree with you on #4 that a number of writing sites are poor income producers unless you write for many of them at the same time. In fact I wrote an article in my blog about that very thing. You can access it at http://www.theseasonedwriter.com.

If people don’t like your advice about a certain subject, then fine. But calling it “venom” is way overboard. What they need to do is to get over it and grow up!

As a point of comparison: It’s hard to tell which way earns you more money; getting paid the full amount up front or writing for several sites and getting paid by page views, which I think is a stupid way to pay people. If some of the great classical composers of all time got paid based on the popularity of their compositions during their lifetime, as opposed to getting paid regularly, many of them would have died young and destitute. One classic example is J.S. Bach, whose compositions were all but forgotten until Felix Mendelssohn revived them nearly 100 years later! In time Bach became one of the greatest, if not the greatest, composer of all time! So much for page views payments!

There’s no use getting upset with what people say. Many of them spout off and they simply DON’T know what they are talking about.

Keep up the good work you are doing here. As someone who has been writing off and on for nearly 50 years, I do appreciate it!

How to describe a policy that says “it’s okay to disagree vehemently, so long as you don’t do it in a way that’s likely to inspire everyone else to defend themselves as individuals because you described them, by name, as jerks?”

My hope (sometimes fulfilled) is to allow every point of view and heated debate, while maintaining enough civility that people can stay on topic and avoid personal comments and jibes.

I have probably transgressed on all counts at one point on another. Now I’m thinking about my Sunday Morn Musings which are a free fall from my otherwise consistent topic (at least I think it is consistent). I notice though that my traffic has begun to pick up on Sundays – maybe its just a growing number of Sundayers, you know, who only like the freefall topics of my Sunday postings.
.-= Valentina´s last blog ..Sunday Morn Musings: Reading and Independent Thinking. =-.

Disclaimer: in my everyday life, I am a stickler for correct punctuation, grammar, and spelling, where I expect to see it. These things are important. I expect blogs to be informal, and as long as it makes sense and isn’t putting blatantly incorrect information out there, I don’t have a prbolem with the odd error (yes, that was intentional). Bloggers are human too.
.-= Lucy Smith´s last blog ..Tempting gadgetry =-.