The hard work you do is an understatement. Just as a interactive reader, I am spending a few hours a day trying to keep up with you. And keep up I must just to get up to or stay up to speed. It is fairly incredible.

Tis fair to say that 100% of your readers are here for the inputs from you and your highly valued blogging community (I have never seen or experienced a better bloggin community, which is another fine credit to you, my dear).

If 0.5% of your readers ever click on an ad great. But, I feel confident that if you put out a “quarterly tip jar” for quarterly fund-raising purposes that you run for two weeks each quarter, the click-through ratio would be through the roof initially. It will undoubtedly taper off substantially as the crisis passes, and as many will only want to contribute annually, it will work wonderfully.

You could do it also in a transparent manner like they do on Channel 11 the public tv station, or NPR radio. Set a goal you’d like to reach in that two week window, and post each day how close you are to reaching that goal. We’d all be cheering for great results for the drive, and it would be so much more fun that dropping a twenty on you.

Be modest in the goal you set, and then do not be surprised by how much we exceed your goal. There is a lot of love for you here in this community, love that grows out of deep respect. All you got to do is reach out and touch it.

Oh, and here is where I make one request, please place your latest wks archives up at the top of your sidebar, I hate having to scroll down half a mile to find what I have already missed in the last twelve hours because you post too damn much, girl!

i think that a large portion of your readers are savy enough to have adblock running, so your impressions are no where near as high as they should be.

i (as well as many others i assume) use naked cap and CR as our primary source for econ news and analysis. i think a fair number of people would be interested and responsible enough to tip.

i also like the idea of micropayments – an idea that never really took off.

another alternative would be some content is subscription only. if the price was right, i would consider subscribing.

i personally have no problem with you trying to monetize the site – you pour a LOT of hard work into it, and you should be compensated.

If you want to have a subscription type edition, that would be fine too, but I agree with John above — that the main benefit of this blog is to encourage economic literacy — so these daily blogs should be left free.

Two points. One, I think some of your ads are the best out there. Second, the other day, I said to myself, this content is worth paying for as a subscription based model, which is unique for financial blogs.

You could combine the blog as an ad-based and sub-based model.

B/c the info value of your blog should reach as wide an audience as possible however, the sub fee should be either be very low or tip-jar based.

Other than that, sounds pretty good.

See: The ITDS area has seen significant progress over the past several months. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection
(CBP) Cargo Control and Release (CCR) Team has been conducting “deep dive” meetings to review and establish
system requirements with 16 Participating Government Agencies (PGAs). These “deep dive” working sessions are
designed to ensure that the CCR development team can accurately build the functionality presented by the PGAs in
their Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) user requirement documents.

http://www.itds.gov/linkhandler/itds/news/e_newsletters/q3_newsletter_2008.ctt/q3_newsletter_2008.pdf

Wikipedia is renowned now for its half-baked “facts” and partisan re-writes by fanatics.

Credibility: none.

Tip Jar is a good idea. Or how about a cheap subscription, those who don’t subscribe only get to see headline and first paragraph.

I think quality should cost, by giving it away free you devalue your product. The internet is full of leeches who won’t pay, so why subsidize them?

One of the best Blogs on the internet, it is worthy of a fee. Thanks for all your hard work.

In any case, you are doing a great job!