Comments on: The Web Just Got Louder

By: Weekly News Round-Up « Women’s Health News

Weekly News Round-Up « Women’s Health News — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:52:53 +0000

[...] Sheril has an update on blogs participating in the Silence is the Enemy on rape as a weapon of war. Go on over to help raise funds through your blog clicks (or otherwise participate). [...]

By: Pilot

Pilot — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 06:45:18 +0000

I am sure that thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands?) of people have heard of this so far. That is quite an accomplishment. But so what? Awareness is overrated. Everyone knows about Darfur by now; how many lives has all that awareness saved? How many rapes is this project going to prevent?

Or like so many things, is this just a way for us to sleep better at night, deluding ourselves that we’re good people and have done our part? A way to assuage the guilt that comes from our horribly over-privileged and comfortable lives? We write our blogs and donate some measly amount, and then go our merry ways, living our lives, being with our families and friends in our comfortable homes, feeling good about ourselves, while the rapes and the killings go on and on.

By: Sheril Kirshenbaum

Sheril Kirshenbaum — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:38:29 +0000

Noadi’s got it–revenue is raised by visiting the page. Thanks for supporting our initiative!

By: Noadi

Noadi — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:03:51 +0000

Here’s my understanding of the way blog revenue works: If the feed has ads then views of those bring money, however Discovery Mag blogs don’t have ads in the feeds so you need to visit the page. Science Blogs has ads in the feeds so feed views (and ad clicks in them ) will bring $ but probably not quite as much as an actual page visit.

By: Dave Dudley

Dave Dudley — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:52:11 +0000

Bravo!

This may be a naive question…but I usually read blogs via the RSS feed. Does that count toward the ‘clicks’? Or does one need to access the blog’s website to actually count?