Stephen Downes

The message from Blogger (aka Google): "We are going to start paying bloggers. Soon you will be blogging for dollars." The move comes only a few days after Google removed the advertising bar from Blogger blogs (to the cheers of bloggers everywhere). They write, "We were making money from those ads but you weren't getting any of it." The AdSense program is not restricted to blogs served by Blogger; any blog is eligible. But don't expect any ads here anytime soon. NRC probably has some squiffy rules about it. And although I get a fair amount of web traffic, most readers use the email subscription or RSS feed, which are still out of bounds for Google ads. But hey, everybody else in the Edu-Blogging community could benefit.