Monday, March 27, 2006
BLOGGING NOTES, HOUSEKEEPING AND POLICY CHANGES
Ahem. A rare address on the state of Zenpundit. First, the blogroll.
I have added some newcomers to the blogroll - many thanks to Dave Schuler of the Glittering Eye and Tom Scudder of 'Aqoul for their suggestions - more changes will soon be forthcoming but for now you can welcome:
Ann Althouse
Bliss Street Journal
Chicago Boyz
History Unfolding
SyriaComment
Window on the Arab World, and More !
A fine group of blogs worth your online time to peruse. The next batch of additions will remediate some topical or domain gaps on my blogroll that I believe need plugging. There will be a few deletions of dead or dying blogs or people whom I do not read that often and who, in the interim, appear to have gone insane or joined a sect of unreconstructed wingnuts.
Secondly, after some reflection, I have decided to accept some degree of paid advertising from a reputable company which can be seen in the form of unobtrusive text ads in the margin. I have had inquiries in this regard in the past but have never accepted until now. Why alter my policy ?
While I do not need the money per se I do incur some costs from subscriptions to periodicals, online data bases and ( an exceedingly large number of) books that support my blogging that I might not otherwise have purchased. Moreover, I have plans for upgrading Zenpundit in the near term that involve additional expenditures and it would be nice if the blog can self-finance at least some of these things.
Therefore, I will accept some sponsors who offer products or services that have nothing to do with the topics on which I usually write. If it could be reasonably construed as a conflict of interest I simply won't take the ad. Completely off-limits would be ads from partisan political campaigns or websites of an adult nature ( call it the "no politicians or whores" rule). Also rejected a priori are gaudy, bandwith sucking, banner ads or pop-ups because I find such things very annoying myself and do not wish to inconvenience my readers.
Other than that, let capitalism reign. ¶ 6:20 PM
Ahem. A rare address on the state of Zenpundit. First, the blogroll.
I have added some newcomers to the blogroll - many thanks to Dave Schuler of the Glittering Eye and Tom Scudder of 'Aqoul for their suggestions - more changes will soon be forthcoming but for now you can welcome:
Ann Althouse
Bliss Street Journal
Chicago Boyz
History Unfolding
SyriaComment
Window on the Arab World, and More !
A fine group of blogs worth your online time to peruse. The next batch of additions will remediate some topical or domain gaps on my blogroll that I believe need plugging. There will be a few deletions of dead or dying blogs or people whom I do not read that often and who, in the interim, appear to have gone insane or joined a sect of unreconstructed wingnuts.
Secondly, after some reflection, I have decided to accept some degree of paid advertising from a reputable company which can be seen in the form of unobtrusive text ads in the margin. I have had inquiries in this regard in the past but have never accepted until now. Why alter my policy ?
While I do not need the money per se I do incur some costs from subscriptions to periodicals, online data bases and ( an exceedingly large number of) books that support my blogging that I might not otherwise have purchased. Moreover, I have plans for upgrading Zenpundit in the near term that involve additional expenditures and it would be nice if the blog can self-finance at least some of these things.
Therefore, I will accept some sponsors who offer products or services that have nothing to do with the topics on which I usually write. If it could be reasonably construed as a conflict of interest I simply won't take the ad. Completely off-limits would be ads from partisan political campaigns or websites of an adult nature ( call it the "no politicians or whores" rule). Also rejected a priori are gaudy, bandwith sucking, banner ads or pop-ups because I find such things very annoying myself and do not wish to inconvenience my readers.
Other than that, let capitalism reign. ¶ 6:20 PM
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Thanks very much for the link.
Zenpundit is going on the Boyz when we do our next update.
Zenpundit is going on the Boyz when we do our next update.
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: Wednesday, 29 March, 2006
: Wednesday, 29 March, 2006
Sounds good to me...always enjoy reading your blog. Thanks for your efforts.
Barnabus
Barnabus
# posted by : Wednesday, 29 March, 2006
: Wednesday, 29 March, 2006
I'd like to thank you, Mark, for linking to my blog "alphabet city," and hope you will keep it in your blogroll despite the hiatus.
Ten hours of work a day in addition to learning 50 pages of dialogue in a week and three hour rehearsals daily are not conducive to blogging.
Keep up the great work at "Zen Pundit."
Ten hours of work a day in addition to learning 50 pages of dialogue in a week and three hour rehearsals daily are not conducive to blogging.
Keep up the great work at "Zen Pundit."
Not to worry, Robert, we all have professional responsibilities that intrude on blogging from time to time. I understand.
Thank you Barnabus, much appreciated !
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Thank you Barnabus, much appreciated !
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