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Bussey busts out

Posted on August 27th, 2013 – Comments Off

Our social media buddy Zach Bussey is making a name for himself with his project to live life off of $12,000 in savings and whatever freebies his online presence get him.

He described his idea to us, just a few weeks old at the time, when we partied it up at the Bud Light event earlier this year, and I have to give him kudos for sticking with it as long as he has, not to mention taking it to the national news level.

In the latest development, a condo owner has decided to put Zach up in an empty condo for a week in exchange for blogging about the property. It’s one of the bigger perks in an otherwise tough year — food, clothes, and even a bed, have at times turned out to be luxuries.

I suspect I’ll bump into Zach at some event or another before this is all through, and I’ll definitely grill him on whether or not it was worth it. But if the purpose of this was to get exposure for potential future projects, which I suspect it was, the man has already found success.

Filed under: Dispatches, Patrick Bay

Morning announcements

Posted on May 6th, 2010 – Comments Off

Have you noticed any changes around here lately, dear reader? I’ve slowly been sneaking stuff onto the site…that TwitPic flip book at the top of the front page, TCLand (current to August 2009, but now there’s Caribana :( ), TCL by Month, the Tumblr site for picture junkies (occasionally with exclusive stuff), various shuffles, re/moves, and additions.

And I’ve added paid advertising. For realsies this time. It’s high time I try to do this thing fulltime because, if I may be honest, a year and a half in I love this blogging thing more than my first day. I entirely agree with most ad networks’ policies that I shouldn’t be asking you to click on any ads. It’s crass, a justifiable reason to get booted off the ad network, and you being the intelligent person you are make the sole and conscious decision to interact with any advertising that appears on this site. I wouldn’t insult you like that.

In order to be entirely transparent about my reasoning behind this effort, you should understand that any revenue that TCL generates goes directly toward helping me pay rent, eat, pay for hosting fees, and all that other stuff that requires money.

Generally speaking, revenue on sites and blogs is generated through the sale of ads, many of which pay when they’re occasionally clicked on. In effect, a a simple click on an ad ends up, via various channels, supporting the site on which it appears. In a very indirect way, the site that loads when a viewer clicks is providing financial assistance to the site carrying the ad. I like to think of this as the credits at the end of a PBS program. Hope you find this information useful.

So yes, I’m selling ad space and I’m getting something together where folks can actually invest in the blog — the idea is for these investments to accrue in value over time (if you believe TCL will accrue value over time, that is), and I’m going to try to get prices down to as low as a buck a pop — $1 – so it might be affordable for you too. I’ll explain how it works later, hopefully it’ll make so much sense that it’ll make your head explode.

But wait, there’s more!