Wednesday, August 3, 2011  To host ads or not  First - I will
say that I will not be putting ads up on my blog.  I'll cover my
reasons behind this in depth, but the long and the short of it
is that I think in 99.9% of the cases, they're just dumb.
 Obviously, I don't have any math to back up this revolutionary
thought, but I'll give a go at why they make no sense.  I don't
visit your site in the first place  I do the vast majority of my
blog reading though a feeder.  The only time I visit a site
directly is when I feel the need to comment on a particular
topic, and that's not too often.  Usually by the time I get to a
site my comment has been voiced 85 other times, and it just gets
lost in the noise.  Unless I feel like I'm actively discussing
something, I don't comment.  I accept that this is how I work,
and so while I love comments, I don't freak out when I don't get
any.  A comment of "totally agree" just doesn't do much.  A
comment that continues discussion is pretty nice.  More to the
point though, is th