Oct 2, 2009

 

Hey Ma, Send Money!

Robert P. Baird

dig­i­tal emu­nc­tion is not a busi­ness, and will almost cer­tainly never be one, and I remain com­mit­ted to the notion that the best way to sup­port what we do here is to argue with our writ­ers in the com­ment boxes and else­where. But on the slim chance that there are some of you out there who actu­ally have dis­pos­able incomes, and on the even slim­mer chance that you same disposable-income-having people might want to send it this way to help finance our enter­prise, well: you can now do so via that ugly black button on the right of your screen, just above the search box.

Oh wait, here’s the button too:

If NPR is listener-​supported radio, then I guess you can think of this as reader-​supported read­ing. Or some­thing. I’ll use what­ever cash comes into the kitty for three things, and in this order:

1/ to offset my web host­ing costs;

2/ to infre­quently pay our con­trib­u­tors a pit­tance for writ­ing longer pieces or series that their nearly empty bank accounts cur­rently do not let them contemplate;

3/ to even more infre­quently pay myself a more pitiable pit­tance for my vir­tual housekeeping.

Every so often I’ll put up a list of donors, assum­ing there are any, so let me know if you want to be left off the list for some reason or other.

Thanks in advance to all three of you prospec­tive donors, and thanks in ret­ro­spect to every­one who has been read­ing and par­tic­i­pat­ing at the site lo these many months. And thanks most of all to our con­trib­u­tors, with­out whose patience, per­sis­tence, and endur­ing good humor we would never have been able to out-​traffic fishweather.com.

7 Responses

1. Jordan

   October 2, 2009

   Staple three blank sheets of paper and call it a chap­book — call it “Day,” maybe — the paypal button will click itself.

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2. Michael Robbins

   October 2, 2009

   “Almost certainly”?

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3. Robert P. Baird

   October 2, 2009

   Well, if the MFA con­sult­ing indus­try takes off, someone’s going to have to step up and help folks decide which firm to use, and really, who’s more qual­i­fied than us to offer that ser­vice?

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4. Joel Calahan

   October 2, 2009

   maybe if we post weather reports for fish­er­man, we could glom some fishweather.com read­ers and double our traf­fic

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5. Joshua Baldwin

   October 2, 2009

   I thought maybe we were gonna be bought by some­one? Does this mean no chance of cor­po­rate spon­sor­ship? -i like mcdon­alds some­times. Well, I guess we need to start talk­ing about char­ity. Some people don’t believe it exists. Still I had hoped maybe I would get free dbl cheese­burg­ers for writ­ing fake book reviews?? Does this mean that will never happen?

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6. Joshua Baldwin

   October 3, 2009

   (sorry that was dumb.)

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7. Robert P. Baird

   October 3, 2009

   Not at all. If double cheese­burg­ers are what it takes to keep the fake book reviews coming, then double cheese­burg­ers you will have. Prospec­tive patrons, take note!

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