Truck and Barter: We Shall Not Beg!

December 13, 2004

We Shall Not Beg!

By Kevin

While two first-rate professors with a top-grade economics & culture blog are holding out their hats to pay for bandwidth, we at T&B have way too much pride for that.

So let me be clear on the T&B donation policy:

1. I don't want your damn money. Thanks, anyway!
2. I don't need your damn money. Thankfully!
3. I prefer that you leave a comment rather than click on an ad.
4. If you insist on sending a donation to me or a coblogger, then do so.

I blogged when it was free, and I blogged when it cost me money. But thanks to these folks, T&B is currently a positive cash-flow enterprise. No, I do not distribute dividends to cobloggers, because their posts aren't driving the revenue. If they were, I would.

Someday, this money source may disappear, but so be it. We will still have no paypal link, no amazon suggestions, no begging--just Google ads, which you don't click on.

Thank you for your patronage.

Posted at December 13, 2004 05:54 PM

Comments

Kevin,

you beat me to it. I was also thinking the same
when i saw Tyler's post requesting for donations.
Fully agree with T&B policy on donations;
we should keep with the spirit of blogoshphere
of being a free source of ideas & information
-Paul

Comment by Paul Asad at December 14, 2004 06:41 AM | Permalink

I am, in the end, a hopeless idealist...

Btw, do you know who this maldives blogger is?

Comment by Kevin Brancato at December 15, 2004 04:31 PM | Permalink