Comments on: Monetizing Blogs: An African Perspective

By: oldman

oldman — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:09:59 +0000

interesting

By: Ally

Ally — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:40:51 +0000

I’m doing research for my class… what other info can I find here about this subject?

By: bankelele

bankelele — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:43:29 +0000

JKE: Thanks for the positive comments.

It takes a lot of time to put together for material for a blog, and it would make it worthwhile if there was some revenue to support the site.

By: Shiroh

Shiroh — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:42:08 +0000

John L, there is famine in the North Eastern Province in Kenya not the whole for Kenya. You can also check out http://www.eastandard.net for details

By: Shiroh

Shiroh — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:30:36 +0000

Now if all of you could buy from my blog. It is not about monetizing the blogs,it is needing more money to supplement the meagre earnings.

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By: HASH

HASH — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 14:38:16 +0000

For me, it's all about content. The Kenyans on JKE's list are all top writers within our little niche in the blogosphere, that's what makes their sites compelling. Personally, if a blogger decides to monetize their blog I have no problems with it. I do however appreciate it if they do it in a controlled manner, with good looking ads that stay out of the main content areas of the blog. A good example of this is BoingBoing and Signal vs Noise.

By: JKE

JKE — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 11:40:31 +0000

What kind of content would you like to pay for then? As for Kenyan blogs, I think I'd spend something on Bankelele's, The Cock & Bull Stories as well as Thinker's Room.

By: Swoosh

Swoosh — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:20:00 +0000

Monetizing blogs is simple capitalism which can reward those that make the effort…why not? Mine is not monetized simply because I haven’t made the effort to keep it interesting enough to generate the traffic, but to others with the focus to do so, why not?
I’m not sure why there is even a debate on the “ethics” of this issue….