A Personal Blog
Archive for June, 2006
Selling Text Links
Jun 5th
Just a note that I’m selling some extra text links this month. I’ve dropped a few of the advertisers here because they were ugly, but I’m a pretty big fan of text links.
Normally I sell them for 50$/month, but I’m pretty tight for cash this month, so I’m selling them for $250/year.
PR7, good readerbase, great search engine placement. If you’re interested, drop me a line or just PayPal me the cash and include the link details to jeremy@ensight.org.
And, yes, if you buy for a year and want to change it later, that’s no problem at all. You’re buying “link space”.
Hell, someone could make a decent commission buying a half dozen spots and selling them, since you can often get 75$+/month for a PR7 link ;-)
In addition, if anyone wants to advertise in the top-right dogear spot, I’ll take offers on that as well (and, really, on any ad spot on the site).
I hate it when things are tight, but grabbing a little extra advertising is way better than the alternatives!
Going to … Romania?
Jun 5th
This seems so odd to say. I’m going to Romania in early July, or so it looks. I’ve been asked to go for 3 days or so to help plan a conference in October, to do some training, and to empower the local community in Bucharest (and Romania in general).
The subject? Blogging as a democratic communications medium.
Crazy. Crazy exciting, but crazy.
Their perspective is that under communism, every bit of communication was censored, managed and ultimately state-controlled. And while they aren’t under communism anymore, their “spirits” (ie: emotions and state of mind) are still very much in that place.
Blogging affords them the ability to talk about whatever they want in an open forum, one that isn’t controlled, and one where any other Romanian can take part.
I’m incredibly excited about this. Still a little like “wow, is this really happening”, but incredibly excited. I’ll need to renew my passport and get a Romanian visa, but I’m hoping that won’t be an issue. Fingers crossed!
