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On all those darned advertisments…

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You, our welcome guest, may have noticed the advertisements scattered about this site. We’d like to apologize, but we won’t. You see, advertisements are the life-blood of small, independent WEBSITES like this one.

Consider this: a small site, or network of sites – say three or four inter-linked portals of information – are not FREE to run. Unlike sites hosted on bigger group domains like Blogger or MySpace, independent sites need to manage their existence on their very own. We, as website operators, must pay for hosting and domain registration. We must maintain software, keep it up-to-date and relevant, manage plug-ins, templates, and spread the word about our efforts through with only minimal help from the giants of website promotion.

When you see advertisements on our sites think of them not as obtrusive clutter, but as the flags of mediated partnerships. Companies that advertise here do so because they understand the power of independent information. Companies that advertise here do so because they’ve joined groups like Google to build strong tools that enable small WEBSITES to remain viable and active. We keep our costs low because by supporting our partners you are supporting us. Supporting the companies that choose to advertise on these types of advertising networks provides a trickle of revenue that can pay for most of the costs associated with a site like this one.

We’re not suggesting that you click for the sake of clicking. No. Please don’t. By clicking advertisements simply to click them you de-legitimize their purpose. If they are not legitimate, they fail. And if they fail, we lose our support and the indirect sponsorship that keeps us alive. Rather, support these companies. We can’t say that we either agree or disagree with or approve a single advertisement that appears here. Those advertisements appear here because they are related to the content you see on this site. If that content brought you here, hopefully there is a product or service offered by our partners to move you forward on your search.

So for now, read on. Enjoy this site. Ignore the advertisements if you must. But please don’t complain and please don’t wait for an apology that will never come.

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