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BlogAid

Published at Friday, Dec 31st, 2004 in Journal.

I just received this mail, from Andy Budd:

“I’m sending you this email to let you know about a small project I’ve launched to help the victims of the Asian Tsunami and Earthquake. The idea is to encourage bloggers to donate the earnings from their site for the month of January to a relief agency of their choice. For most people, the money they make from site advertising such as Google AdWords is a nice little extra, but something they could quite happily do without for a month. By pledging this money, it gives bloggers an easy way to support the relief efforts. While I obviously can’t guarantee that people will donate their earnings, I’m hoping that a public commitment will encourage the majority of people to honour their pledge.

http://www.blogaid.org.uk/

I’d really appreciate it if you guys—some of the highest profile people in the blogsphere—would help promote this project as well as pledge if you have ads or affiliate programs on your site.”

I have not carried ads before, primarily because my intention never was to make money off of this site. But this is as good a time as any to begin. So I signed up for AdSense, and as soon as they get back to me, I’ll get them up here.

Also, all donations for Kubrick will go straight into BlogAid.

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9 Responses to “BlogAid”

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  1. 1 Steve p Sharpe
    Dec 31st, 2004 at 17:21

    Is the BlogAid banner made by yourself or is there a public one for people to show their support by putting it on their site?

    Thanks

    Steve

  2. 2 Michael
    Dec 31st, 2004 at 17:35

    It is on the site.

  3. 3 Mathias Bynens
    Dec 31st, 2004 at 18:51

    That’s a very nice thing to do.

  4. 4 Matt D.
    Dec 31st, 2004 at 18:53

    Excellent`

  5. 5 Michele
    Dec 31st, 2004 at 19:07

    I’d do like you did and sign up for AdSense, but my blog is not as popular as yours, so I think it would be pretty useless.

    Anyway, I’ll try to donate every single cent I can.

  6. 6 Guillaume
    Dec 31st, 2004 at 19:31

    I have had the same reaction than Michele, I’ve earned only 2,4$ (with Google Ads) since October, that’s why I’ve made a donation directly to an NGO. But the idea is good. ;) I think that Google sends you a check when you’ve reached 100$.

  7. 7 matthew
    Jan 1st, 2005 at 03:58

    I dont have a donate button so Ive got a sticky post pointing at donation sites.
    I noticed btw that amazon uk now has a link to donation sites and microsoft com has added one but not microsoft uk.

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