A Very Good Cause
July 13, 2009
While I am sure you have all already seen it, Joerg Colberg is holding a fundraiser for his blog Conscientious. Blogs are indeed a labor of love, and Amy and I have certainly discovered from Women in Photography how demanding and time consuming they can be. And Joerg certainly treats his blog as a professional endeavour, all done for no compensation. The reality of internet advertising, is that if you have less than a 100,000 hits a day, you really are not going to make any money.
So, if you read his blog and can spare $5, $10, or $20+ dollars, it is a worthy cause indeed.
July 15, 2009 at 2:37 pm
“The reality of internet advertising, is that if you have less than a 100,000 hits a day, you really are not going to make any money.”
I don’t know if I agree with that. I have considerably less than 100,000 daily pageviews, but I manage to contribute nicely to the family expenses with revenue from advertising on my site. I am a stay-at-home dad of two kids and I only find a few hours a week to write for the blog, but it still brings in more than the average annual salary here in Detroit (which isn’t saying a whole lot, but it’s still something for only “working” a few hours a week). Now a blog with less than 100,000 daily pageviews isn’t going to make you RICH, but with a smart advertising platform you can still make the kind of money you can survive on in most parts of the country.
in joerg’s case, it may be hard to find advertising that would pay above adsense-type rates without compromising the integrity and reputation of the site. having become one of the premier online venues for exposing the work of emerging photographers, it seems fucked up that he can’t earn money from that accomplishment. Having received links from conscientious a few times, I am inclined to support him. but it’s too bad there isn’t a better way to monetize one’s work over the long haul.
July 16, 2009 at 1:59 pm
The future of blogging is… charity?