Received yesterday:
From: Claire [deleted]
To: jeremyfreese@[domain deleted]
Date: Aug 10, 2005 4:29 PM
Subject: Interested in writing a blog on madison.com?
Hello,
I'm a new fan of your blog. Would you be interested in writing a blog on
madison.com?
The content is entirely up to you. My only requirement would
be that you try to write at least once or twice a week and that the content is
original (i.e that you don't also post it on blogspot).
What's in it for you?
We select a blog for publication in print each week and pay that writer $50. I
know it's not a lot of cash, but it's a little extra spending money. I can offer
you more visibility. madison.com is the area's number one local website and we
receive more than 7 million page views a month.
What do you think?
Claire
Of course, even if I was not moving away from Madison because it would violate one of
The Ten Sacred Rules of JFW: "The proprietor of
JFW will never attempt to make money from this blog." This rule is right between "
JFW will never have a sitemeter" and "The proprietor of
JFW will never use his blog as an outlet for disquisitions about his bodily functions." Or maybe it's between: "The proprietor of
JFW will never refer to those people who are kind enough to check out his blog from time to time as being a 'readership'." and "
JFW is an irregular blog with no sense of compunction to post everyday."
(Note: other bloggers feel differently about their blogs, and that's not just okay but a good thing--the online sandbox is infinite, and so we all have room enough to play in our own way.)
2 comments:
Jeremy,
You don't read my blog!
I'm glad you put the thing about the online sandbox, because I was going to be annoyed that you seemed to be implying that there was something wrong with blogs that included "disquisitions about [the author's] bodily functions". 3 cheers for disquisitions on bodily functions.
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