Huh. How much money are we talking about, here?

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…what? Oh. The Truth Laid Bear has noted that we’re within 60 days of the election, which means that a lot of 527s can’t spend money on radio and TV ads anymore – but the Internet’s explicitly exempt from that, and there’s certainly still money to burn.

I’ve never been one for wanting to offer advertising space on ObWi – this site costs me around $15 a month, total, and I can cover that from my own pocket without any hassles (it’s a ridiculously small amount of money to have to worry about, even a little). But if ad space is going to be a seller’s market, well… roleplaying game supplements aren’t what you’d call cheap. Or law books. Or exciting new works of art. Or… whatever hilzoy likes to spend money on (btw, somebody still hasn’t gotten to me a About Us entry. Hint, hint).

Moe

PS: Am I being serious? Probably not really – but some of you folks are yourselves bloggers, and some of you may be interested in getting a revenue stream going, so there you go. Public service; that’s what we’re all about, here at ObWi.

4 thoughts on “Huh. How <I>much</I> money are we talking about, here?”

  1. Be very, very cautious about claiming 527(c) status — even if you’re a blogger. I know just enough to know that there are numerous traps for the unwary.

  3. What a spledid idea. Maybe it’s time to start my own blog, then.
    Hmmm…since the GOP has more money, I think I’ll call it “10 Things I Love About President Bush”

  4. This is off-topic — in fact, I’m deliberately putting it here since I do not want to reignite the SwiftVets debate — but Atrios links to a story in a Bakersfield paper that contains the following quote:

    “Means, a 55-year-old investigator for several Bakersfield law firms, was particularly annoyed by the words of one retired admiral. Roy F. “Latch” Hoffman, one of the co-founders of the pro-George W. Bush group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, had publicly criticized Kerry, a former Swift boat commander, for having brought back stories about alleged war crimes by U.S. forces — often carried out, Kerry said in 1971, “with the full awareness of officers at all levels.”
    Seemed to him, Means said, his own Swift boat crew had come close to committing a war crime themselves one day. A senior officer, hitching a ride up the coast aboard their Swift boat, had ordered the crew to fire on a small group of unarmed Vietnamese fishermen working their nets in unrestricted waters, Means said. The boat’s commanding officer had refused to comply.
    Was that the way the boat’s commander remembered the incident too, all these years later? Means had to know.
    So he got on the Internet and hunted down Thomas W.L. “Tad” McCall, the retired Navy captain who’d commanded Means’ boat, PCF 88, as a newly minted ensign. Means called him.
    Not only did McCall remember the day in question, and that confrontation off the coast of South Vietnam, he remembered the name of the officer who had given the command to shoot: “Latch” Hoffman himself, then a Navy captain in charge of the entire Swift boat task force in Vietnam.”

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