Alot of people blog for free. I can understand that. Writing is therapeutic and stress relieving and there is gratification in knowing that your voice is being heard. The internet also makes it easier for the lowest and highest voices in the world to be heard instantaneously anywhere in the world from anywhere else in the world.
However, I need to eat and so does every other writer. I have advocated people reading this blog donate money and you still can do that:
I have also been putting a significant amount of time and energy in to figuring out how to monetize this website. Radical Second Things already has a partnership with PostJoint, a website that provides sponsored content for a reasonable fee, and that has earned me a respectable amount of money given the brief time this site has been around and its unsteady content. There will be even more.
I want this blog to be attractive to advertisers and investors so I am going to be working out a new graphic design scheme for the banner along with looking at new guest contributors. Despite engaging in capitalism (does one really have a choice?), the radical nature of this site will not shift. We still are partners of Gonzo Times and this site still supports an end to empire, an end to the war on drugs and policies of social justice which will make life more equitable for the mass of citizens.
Beyond just making money, part of my goal with Radical Second Things is to create a serious forum. I am very proud of my work for the Hampton Institute because I consider Hampton one of the few serious forums in the internet age but I want this place to be a return to what once was, albeit updated for a new age. Magazines like Funny Times often provided a great deal of humorous and intelligent content meant to tickle the brain and not just get likes on Facebook. I'm making a conscious effort to do that here.
However, I need to eat and so does every other writer. I have advocated people reading this blog donate money and you still can do that:
I have also been putting a significant amount of time and energy in to figuring out how to monetize this website. Radical Second Things already has a partnership with PostJoint, a website that provides sponsored content for a reasonable fee, and that has earned me a respectable amount of money given the brief time this site has been around and its unsteady content. There will be even more.
I want this blog to be attractive to advertisers and investors so I am going to be working out a new graphic design scheme for the banner along with looking at new guest contributors. Despite engaging in capitalism (does one really have a choice?), the radical nature of this site will not shift. We still are partners of Gonzo Times and this site still supports an end to empire, an end to the war on drugs and policies of social justice which will make life more equitable for the mass of citizens.
Beyond just making money, part of my goal with Radical Second Things is to create a serious forum. I am very proud of my work for the Hampton Institute because I consider Hampton one of the few serious forums in the internet age but I want this place to be a return to what once was, albeit updated for a new age. Magazines like Funny Times often provided a great deal of humorous and intelligent content meant to tickle the brain and not just get likes on Facebook. I'm making a conscious effort to do that here.
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