Advertising – Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

I have been reading blogs for a while and notice more and more of them support advertising in one form or another. Can somebody tell me why this is necessary? It seems to me by supporting advertising, you are selling your soul to the highest bidder, even if you agree with them. Some people make a living blogging so the advertising pays them. I can't argue with this. But other people who don't blog for a living use the argument for advertising that it helps support the website. n nSorry, I don't see that. If I don't count my time, it only cost me $7.00 a month to run the site that hosts Thoughts from the Middle of Nowhere. That gives me almost 1 GB of storage, 40MB per month of bandwidth, and the cost of the domain name. Seven dollars a month is dirt cheap to air my views on the world and not sell my soul out to some advertisers who hawk things i don't agree with. It just doesn't seem worth it to me. n nThis is a 100% ad free Zone and will remain so. n nAdvertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. F. Scott Fitzgerald