An ethical dilemma in renting.

Saying for the Day: I have a new renter and you have to click on her.

“I want to welcome “Crying Harry” from “Cry until A Puddle Forms” as my new renter.

I want you to blog over and have a good cry with him and his wife.
They just lost their house and their dog and a couple of cats.

I feel sure this is something you want to read about.”

All over blogdom these messages are appearing as people rent out advertising on their blog.

It is of course not good enough to just put up the advertisement.

You have to welcome them.

You have to give people a reason to click on them.

Because for the most part any sharp blogger has learned to ignore those side advertisements.

You have to make people want to click on them.

This, of course is okay on a day when you have nothing to say anyway.
It takes up space.
That is good.
It means that you don’t have to think very much.
You just reword what your renter says about his blog in the renters introduction.

However on a day when you just want to share the new recipe you have for hamburger and Strawberry jam it’s a pain.

If you put your recipe ahead of the welcome, people will be so excited over the recipe they will never get to the welcome.

And of course you can only read so much in 30 seconds.

This is what is know as an ethical dilemma.

Really sharp bloggers solve the problem by working the welcome into the recipe or whatever. You know like this

Our new renter , you should click on him , really likes our recipe for Hamburger and Jam . Remember when you finish reading the recipe to click on the renter.

I , however, have decided that I will never have a renter.

I am too much afraid of a lawsuit from the ACLU when I refuse to let “ Atheists Against Everybody” rent my space.

It would probably go all the way to the Supreme Court and I’m not sure Judge Alito would support me.

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We are going to leave the Fortress and travel to the big city of Iron Mountain . We are going to eat out and take in a movie. We might even go to Wal Mart. Can life be any better than this?Oh, and Pat took a bath in the tub with a door and didn't flood the house this time.
I am never leaving the Fortress again! Never ! I fell in Iron Mountain. I spent four hours in the emergency room. I won't be able to walk without extreem pain for a week. I am never leaving the Fortress again. I need a breathing treatment.
GBYA