{"id":1470,"date":"2008-02-06T13:52:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T21:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/06\/time-for-an-annoucement-or-whats-with-the-ads\/"},"modified":"2010-01-19T09:16:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T17:16:16","slug":"time-for-an-announcement-or-whats-with-the-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/06\/time-for-an-announcement-or-whats-with-the-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for an Announcement (or: What&#8217;s with the ads?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observant readers of Seattle Bubble have noticed that the last few weeks have brought some fairly major changes\u2014a new, cleaner layout for the blog, avatars in the comments, a redesign of the forum to match the blog, a fancy new sidebar section: &#8220;Recent Forum Posts,&#8221; the addition of tags to stories, and oh yeah&#8230; ads.  This may lead readers to ask a few questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where does The Tim find the time to do all this?<\/li>\n<li>Why are you adding advertising now, after two years of being ad-free?<\/li>\n<li>Also, why do I have this strange urge to spend all my evenings watching &#8220;Short Circuit&#8221;?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, I don&#8217;t think  I can really help you with that last one (let&#8217;s try to stay on-topic), but hopefully this post will sufficiently address the first two.<\/p>\n<p><u>Here&#8217;s the short version<\/u>:<br \/>\n<strong> As of January 28th, Tim Ellis is self-employed<\/strong>, and Seattle Bubble is one part of the plan to make enough money to pay the bills.<\/p>\n<p><u>Here&#8217;s the long version<\/u>:<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve had a growing list of projects mulling about in my head, and although I enjoy <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electrical_engineering\" title=\"Wikipedia: Electrical Engineering\">electrical engineering<\/a> and had nothing against my employer, I have always had a strong desire to be self-employed.  Given my present financial situation of <em>zero<\/em> debt, low living expenses (including no rent, as my wife and I are caretakers on an unused property), no kids (yet), and enough liquid savings to last over two years with zero income,  it is hard to imagine a better time in my life to chase this particular dream.  So, upon returning from our big giant road trip, I put in the two week notice at work, and as of January 28th, I am now an employee of Me, Myself, and I, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Although Seattle Bubble is not the entirety of my plan to generate an income, it is an important element.  What this means is that you&#8217;ll be seeing some advertising, but you&#8217;ll also be seeing <strong>more frequent updates<\/strong>, <strong>additional content<\/strong>, and a <strong>quicker responses<\/strong> to your questions and concerns.  I intend to do my best to keep Seattle Bubble interesting and relevant, even as the housing market finally comes down from its recent ridiculous highs.  In addition to the advertising, I&#8217;m considering a few other ways of making some money off of Seattle Bubble, including sales of stickers and\/or t-shirts, some sort of premium content (<em>over and above<\/em> what is already being offered\u2014nothing currently free would become for-pay), and of course there&#8217;s always the big <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/xclick\/business=subscriptions%40seattlebubble.com&amp;no_note=1&amp;tax=0&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;lc=US&amp;item_name=Seattle%20Bubble%20Donation\" title=\"Donate to Seattle Bubble\"><strong>DONATE<\/strong><\/a> link at the top.<\/p>\n<p><u>But that&#8217;s not all&#8230;<\/u><br \/>\nNow you may be asking: &#8220;So, if Seattle Bubble isn&#8217;t the whole plan, how do you intend to make enough money to get by in Seattle?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a great question.  To answer that, I&#8217;d like to direct you to <strong>my brand new blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/thatchmound.com\/blog\/\" title=\"Thatch Mound Blog\">Thatch Mound<\/a><\/strong>.  Thatch Mound is the &#8220;parent company&#8221; that I have created to serve as an umbrella over all of the projects I&#8217;ll be working on.  In <a href=\"http:\/\/thatchmound.com\/blog\/\" title=\"Thatch Mound Blog\">the blog<\/a> I&#8217;ll be giving a first-hand account of my experiences as I build the business from the ground up.  I hope you&#8217;ll find it interesting enough to visit regularly and see how things unfold.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px auto; width: 600px; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thatchmound.com\/blog\/\" title=\"Visit Thatch Mound\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/thatchmound.jpg\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 5px\" title=\"Visit Thatch Mound\" alt=\"Visit Thatch Mound\" height=\"125\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on, that&#8217;s the big secret.  As for the ads on Seattle Bubble, I realize that they&#8217;re probably poorly targeted, and they may be a bit annoying (though I&#8217;ve tried to avoid making them invasive), but hopefully they don&#8217;t detract from the quality content that we work hard to bring you here.  If they really bother you a lot, I recommend using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/\" title=\"Get Firefox\">Firefox<\/a> with the <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/1865\" title=\"Adblock Plus\">Adblock Plus<\/a> add-on.  Ta-da, ads gone.<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate any financial support you care to send via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/xclick\/business=subscriptions%40seattlebubble.com&amp;no_note=1&amp;tax=0&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;lc=US&amp;item_name=Seattle%20Bubble%20Donation\" title=\"Donate to Seattle Bubble\"><strong>the donate option<\/strong><\/a>, and for those of you that have already generously donated, thank you.  I&#8217;ll set you up with some free t-shirts or subscription content when those things are added in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/thatchmound.com\/blog\/\" title=\"Thatch Mound Blog\">go visit Thatch Mound<\/a>, and tell all your entrepreneurial-minded friends about it, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observant readers of Seattle Bubble have noticed that the last few weeks have brought some fairly major changes\u2014a new, cleaner layout for the blog, avatars in the comments, a redesign of the forum to match the blog, a fancy new sidebar section: &#8220;Recent Forum Posts,&#8221; the addition of tags to stories, and oh yeah&#8230; ads&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[615,617],"tags":[43,70],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extras","category-announcements-extras","tag-administrative","tag-blogging"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Time for an Announcement (or: What&#039;s with the ads?) \u2022 Seattle Bubble<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/06\/time-for-an-announcement-or-whats-with-the-ads\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Time for an Announcement (or: What&#039;s with the ads?) \u2022 Seattle Bubble\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Observant readers of Seattle Bubble have noticed that the last few weeks have brought some fairly major changes\u2014a new, cleaner layout for the blog, avatars in the comments, a redesign of the forum to match the blog, a fancy new sidebar section: &#8220;Recent Forum Posts,&#8221; 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