Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

Sponsors are those who you make pay, for things that you would give to a friend or stranger for free.

“It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.”

- Rod Serling

I also find it difficult to read blogs that make sponsorship the primary reason for their existence. To me, sponsorship of my blog is just gravy — a fun way to make my hobby pay for itself and a few small toys. The last few days I’ve had several requests from businesses to pay me for advertising space. I’m not totally against this, as you can see I have an ad for a printer ink company, and a blog & merchandise search engine already on my sidebar (and usually, but not currently, Google Adsense). However, I have to draw a line somewhere, lest my site have more ads than new unbought-content.

I’m more likely to give away a link in a post due to a cordial or reciprocated request, than farm out my Google PageRank to web entrepreneurs who will pay me cash or royalties. That’s why I’m giving a link to Pastor Rob who asked many of Jon Swift’s readers, who participated in the liberal-blogrolling experiment, to link back to him as he added our blogs to his blogroll. This, despite him having little in common with me religiously, geographically, or politically. Sometimes it’s good to expand ones’ blogroll past the point of reason or logic, and just see what happens.