{"id":1107,"date":"2010-11-30T11:40:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T10:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2010-11-30T11:40:30","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T10:40:30","slug":"will-you-sell-advertising-space-on-your-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2010\/11\/30\/will-you-sell-advertising-space-on-your-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Will you sell advertising space on your blog?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(since I&#8217;m getting more and more requests for this lately, usualy from &#8220;regular readers&#8221;. Sigh. Do PR drones really believe the rest of the world is so stupid and gullible?)<\/p>\n<p>No. I run Google Ads for research reasons (it&#8217;s a live site where I can fiddle with it, try out the new features, etc), but the blog is a net loss, and I&#8217;m happy with that.<\/p>\n<h4>&#8220;We&#8217;d like to write a guest-post for your blog, we think your readers will really love it?&#8221;<\/h4>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>Before you write paragraphs of BS about how you are a &#8220;regular reader&#8221;, get off your ass and see how many times there&#8217;s been a &#8220;guest post&#8221; on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s *MY* blog. About my professional, technology, business, and career interests. It is not a newspaper or magazine.<\/p>\n<p>But hey &#8211; if you want to rent me, the going rate is $2000 a day. So that &#8220;guest post&#8221; is going to cost you $750,000 a year (approximately).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not unreasonable: I&#8217;ll give you a discount after the first year :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(since I&#8217;m getting more and more requests for this lately, usualy from &#8220;regular readers&#8221;. Sigh. Do PR drones really believe the rest of the world is so stupid and gullible?) No. I run Google Ads for research reasons (it&#8217;s a live site where I can fiddle with it, try out the new features, etc), but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}