Miscellaneous

As many of you know, I have two blogs: this one and The (New) Legal Writer. Until today, I had a widget on each blog that was a mini-RSS reader tracking the other blog. The idea was to integrate the content of the two blogs while keeping the blogs themselves separate.

Today the widgets are gone. Why? Because I noticed that they started carrying little pop-up advertisements?for which I was getting paid zilch. I?m not against advertising on blogs, but I resent having advertisements smuggled onto my blogs without my knowing about it or getting paid.

I don?t make money from blogging; instead I pay TypePad for the web space. As long as that state of affairs exists, these blogs shall be ad-free.

p.s. In place of the mini-RSS-reader widget, I?ve installed a less fancy feature, listing only the headlines of the other blog?s last five posts. It?s not as fancy as the widget, but at least it?s ad-free.