Why I choose not to monetize my website

I don't need to. make money out (Monetize) of my Blog/Website

Steve Pavlina's suggestions are not the way that I feel about my efforts. He thinks that a website's prime purpose is to monetize.

• Steve Pavlina's blog/website - a review on The Technology Muse
• The Steve Pavlina website

Some people have strong personal feelings with respect to making money from  their blogs.  If you think commercializing your blog is evil, immoral,  unethical, uncool, lame, greedy, obnoxious, or anything along those lines,  then don't commercialize it.

I could place all manner of banner ads on this blog. If you use the "next blog" button at the top of this blog you will soon find examples of this. I am unsure whether the owners of these blogs actually make any money out of them.

Forum Crap

This was one of the reasons that I started my website and blog - an attempt to try and point out some of the nonsense that you find when making Internet searches and come across so-called "expert" forums.

I started out with a web page entitled: "The nonsense and misinformation that you read on most forums" - this got too large and now, 2012, I am re-posting some of the information as separate blog postings (the dates for these will be approximate).

The large page was replaced on my website by an observation that I made when I came across the StackOverflow website that seemed to sum up my view in the following diagram:

While this website/blog does not have the depth of knowledge, participants and resources of StackOverflow I am of the opinion that Forums, Blogs and Wikis are quite often less than helpful.

Blogs, Wikis and Forums all have their places (I am not sure about Digg/Reddit/StumbleUpon/Technorati and others like Delicious.com (formerly del.icio.us) and Slashdot)

•  Systems pages on The Technology Muse