Donate
The podcast and the blog are free for you to consume however you like and honestly only cost me a little bit to cover hosting. I appreciate any and all help in defraying those costs. There are many ways you can help do so.
You can make a one time donation of any amount.
If you really want to make a difference in my ability to keep producing the blog and podcast, a small recurring monthly donation would be hugely appreciated and would directly offset a significant fraction of my costs.
All of the donation buttons are powered by PayPal and you may unsubscribe from recurring donations at any time.
Custom Nerd Merit Badges
A one time donation of $20 or more earns you a premium of a custom nerd merit badge as a reward. A monthly donation of any amount will also earn you a badge as a token of my gratitude.
Flattr
Maybe you don’t want to donate every month to every project you want to support or are concerned about having to send a large enough amount to make the PayPal fee worth it. Flattr is a new way of sending micropayments that minimizes the impact of transaction fees on the sender and the receiver. To send money to your favorite projects by Flattr, you just click a button on their web site or in Flattr’s directory of “things”–text, video, audio, software, whatever.
You add funds (currently only through PatyPal) to Flattr once a month. That money gets divvied up equally across all the projects on whose Flattr button you clicked, letting you subdivide your support much smaller than is practical otherwise. All the Flattr clicks a creator receives get summed up, making it easier for us to manage incoming donations as a larger sum rather than the original micropayments.
You do have to have a PayPal account and registration (currently in invite only beta) is required. But if this model sound interesting to you, I have set up buttons throughout the web site so you can Flattr whatever specific content you like or the web site and podcast as a whole.
Promote
If you don’t have the spare cash to support the site and show financially, you can still help out. Go to the promos page and download one of the audio segments to either play on your podcast or to send to your favorite podcasters and ask them to help by playing it. If you have access to recording gear, you can also participate in the ongoing, open collaboration that I used to produce my promos.
Advertising
As an experiment, I have started to use Ad Bard on my web site. They exemplify the kind of advertiser or sponsor with whom I had always imagined working but despaired of finding. I have to thank Evan and the folks at StatusNet for bringing this ad network to my attention. Even the Free Software Foundation endorses Ad Bard and with good reason. They are committed to remaining an ethically operated network connecting publishers, like myself, and advertiser whose interests align on open source and free software.
I would welcome a similar advertiser or sponsor for the podcast if anyone is interested but for now I am just trying out Ad Bard to see how much it can help to defray my hosting expenses. If you have any thoughts on the question of acceptable advertising and sponsorship, I welcome them.
I would ask that if you visit my site regularly and you use AdBlockPlus, that you consider making an exception for Ad Bard. I have pinged them about feed ads, too, since I suspect many of my readers don’t visit the site. I will only use such ads if I personally don’t find them obnoxious or intrusive.
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