I'm rethinking an academic career after grad school, now that I know that my price for selling out will be a $10 gift certificate...

Heh. When I ordered a white chocolate mocha today, they told me that they ran out. So they gave me another drink instead -- for free. It made me happy enough to share that story today.

Maybe $10 of free coffee is nothing for a big shot professor like you, but it makes a big difference to a law student like me during finals! If it's such a paltry sum to you, why don't you just send it my way and there will be pareto optimal outcome!

HA! Your $10 of free coffee is NOTHING compared to the amount of alcohol you'll consume when you're finished.

These stupid iPod give aways get me so upset. The whole rage these days it to buy one dinky little gadget and give it away for free in exchange for someone doing your work. This lady at work was in charge of writing a paper but instead of thinking of some clever material she spent a few weeks preparing some survey and gifts to try to get some clever responses.

Just this morning I read about some site that's set up to have people try and hack IIS (whatever the latest version is). These competitions typically require you to disclose how you hacked the site in order to win the prize. They were giving away an Xbox--wow, what's that worth, $150? Knowing a breakin to IIS that no one else does is worth a heck of a lot more than $150.

The local Dairy Queen and a dozen other places have had iPod give aways (sometimes even just the cheap iPod minis). And they're never even a couple or a bunch; normally they just give one measly unit away.

Anyway, I haven't participated in any of thse stupid iPod give aways and I try to not to even give business to those have them.

Anyway. just had to vent. Happy cinco de mayo!

My alter ego Lonewacko asks: Why not go all the way and run a cam site? More income, and you'd be doing the same thing.

But seriously, as the Big Bloggers get bigger and start raking in the big dough, all they'll become is just smaller versions of the MSM.

And, I don't think political blogging is exactly the road to riches.

I see that Simon gets 12,000 visits per day. He sells two regular blog ads for 100/wk and a premium blog ad for 300/wk. He doesn't appear to have a premium ad right now. He's got adsense, but it's displaying ads for Plus Size clothing. A few other adsense ads didn't look too inviting either, and I'm going to hazard a guess that's not doing as well as it could.

Maybe he's making 2k/mo. I've heard tales of people making more than that in a day with adsense alone.

I understand they made an offer to Kristol for a link on the Weekly Standard website.

Offered him his choice of either Guam or one of the Cayman Islands.

Should've supported Bush, Daniel.

Dammed neocons get everything.

SMG

$10 will buy you, what, two cups of Saint Arbucks?

Wait till the first high profile political blogger get audited. It'll happen sooner or later, under some administration. That's going to start the cyber world on fire.

Daniel,
As smart as you are, which is incredibly smart, remember that you can still be taken advantage of by a sufficiently smooth salesman if you don't have personal experience in that arena. So PLEASE get in contact with me BEFORE you start calling business jet dealers - I will help you select a better airplane while still saving money.

Cranky

Reads to me like your post on JLA Guide would be no charge. The gift certificate is a gratuity.

(i m sucha killjoy)