HELP !!!!
p2pnet.net campaign:- This is long, but p2pnet technical manager Sixto Luis Santos and myself (Jon Newton) badly need your help so we’d appreciate it if you’d read this through.
p2pnet isn’t a an entrepreneurial venture or a business. It’s a commitment and we need to get about $2,500 together as soon possible, mainly to keep the wolf from Sixto’s door.
p2pnet has advertisements, for which we’re extremely grateful. We’d be dead without them. But don’t be fooled. The ads don’t even cover costs.
I’m a married man with a wife, a daughter and a mortgage and I now run p2pnet by myself full-time, 24/7, keeping it going with savings (now down to the dregs), a bank loan and from ad income.
A few months back, I was joined by Sixto Luis Santos, a fantastic programmer who lives in Puerto Rico. He, too, has a wife, as well as three young children – and a mortgage. Between us, we want to expand p2pnet to the next stage, and also be able to hire one or two full-time writers.
Jon
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A two-man band
Is there a real need for a site like p2pnet? Yes, and it’s being proven every day by the fact our traffic continues to go up.
In August, 2004, p2pnet had 224,493 unique visitors and 658,693 total page views. It’s almost doubled in 12 months. This July, we had 415,202 unique visitors and 1,904,336 total page views. And as I write this nine days into August, so far, we’re at 192,828 unique visitors and 577,286 total page views (and rising : )
Not bad for a two-man band with no backing, no crew and no financial support. Our success is because p2pnet is the only site carrying regularly updated, daily news from the trenches. We do what we can, but the content needs to be boosted and diversified, and that’s what this is all about.
Disinformation and misinformation releases are spewed out every day by the music, movie and software cartels to be swallowed whole by the mainstream media and then regurgitated as supposedly accurate news and information from credible sources.
Today’s story about an attempt by the cartels to mischaracterize half of Canadian students as thieves is a typical example.
This kind of cut-and-paste journalism and reporting by press release is now standard for both the major on- and offline mainstream media and, regrettably, some sites perceived to be presenting unslanted news from the other side of the fence. It plays straight into the hands of the MPAA, RIAA, CRIA, ARIA, IFPI, BPA, BSA and all the other consumer (that’s you) control and manipulation organizations.
p2pnet was the first, and is still the only, web page to carry original daily news stories, features and commentaries on p2p, digital media and distributed computing events and developments which haven’t been spun, filtered and pre-digested by vested corporate interests.
We’re throwing the lies back in their teeth and, with that in mind, we’re also a source for a number of news outlets, including Google and Yahoo.
Sixto has already made a number of important behind-the-scenes coding changes, but he supports himself as a freelance programmer and to finish, he’s been putting in the hours on in his own time every chance he had. But now it’s crunch time. Now he needs to complete the new content management system without worrying about where his mortgage payment is coming from.
But I’ve run out of money.
Hire new faces
The new p2pnet is modeled on the existing one, but it’ll have a newspaper look with sections instead of just one index, as at present. The front page will have three profiles of people in the news, the main news lead (turning inside if need be), and 20 headlines for the day’s posts, each leading to the item in its appropriate section. Sections will include: Open Source, Hardware, Software, Wi-Fi, New Products, Pay P2P, Guest Posts, OT, Register and Login.
With the new design, we’ll be able to attract more, and a much wider range of, advertising which will in turn allow Sixto and I to pay our mortgages and feed our families, look after the people who’ve been contributing for free, and hire new faces.
We have other plans, ie free Classified Ads and a streamed Speaker’s Corner where readers will get to post a short video on any given topic which we’ll host in a special area.
But that’ll come.
For myself, I’m managing month-by-month financially, but I really need a Wi-Fi enabled laptop running on Linux. Or even a non-Wi-Fi portable running on Linux : ) It sits really badly with me to be criticizing Bill and the Boyz, using Windows while I do it. My present desktop is about to die, which means I’ll have to use my daughter’s. And that’ll be no fun, believe me. She’s just turned nine. Need I say more? Heh. But at the moment, I don’t have the wherewithal to replace my own computer so if there’s anything left over, that’s where it’ll go.
Back to helping out, think of the $2,500 as a loan. We’ll pay it back by continuing to bring you stories and reports that haven’t been custom-crafted in someone’s corporate PR department
If you have a PayPal account, you can make a direct donation via the donations box at the bottom left ad column. If you don’t like that idea, please contact me and I’ll give you my snail-mail address.
Also, please let me know if you’d like to be included in the list of donors we plan to post, and if you’d like the amount mentioned. We’ll update every day as to how this is going.
Cheers! And thanks a lot ……
Jon & Sixto
Revision – 7:25 am Pacific: – Craig Lester over in the UK says he’ll be chucking something into the pot at the end of the month when he gets paid. “I read your blog every day – for nothing,” he says in an email. “So I think that does deserve some financial help. I mean I pay for a newspaper, so why should I not contribute something to you?”
Cheers, Craig : )
Thanks for the emails expressing support (and some asking for snail-mail info) If I don’t answer immediately, it’s because I’m writing copy, etc. Also, I’ll be away from about 11:00 am until much later today. But I WILL get back to everyone : )
August 9th, 2005 at 3:44 pm
I have tried to email you about purchasing an ad for spammerslapper, but I never got an answer back. I’m not sure if you got the email. Also I do not know where to send a money order (I do not trust the security infrastructure to send credit card payment online — too many Winblows computers serving web pages). Do I send it to the address which you used to register your domain?
August 9th, 2005 at 3:54 pm
Hi William –
I’ve just emailed you back : )
Cheers!
Jon
August 9th, 2005 at 4:30 pm
Considering your current financial position, wouldn’t it be wiser to defer your plans to expand the website and just continue in your current format? You are doing a lot of good right now. Dont bite off more than you can chew.
The old “Boycott RIAA” website went thru a few “improvements” and is now a shadow of its former self.
Furthermore, looking for outside financing always suggests you may be giving up some objectivity to please a sponsor. Even if its not true, the suspicion is there.
August 9th, 2005 at 4:38 pm
Boycott changed when, and because, it went to a new owner. That’s not going to happen with p2pnet.
Otherwise, we HAVE to bite off more if we want to keep chewing.
We’re hoping for donations so we can do the jobs ourselves and bring in more revenue. But as far as sponsors go, I’m don’t believe that if someone advertises with you, or helps in some other way, it automatically means you have to bend over : )
Cheers!
August 9th, 2005 at 4:41 pm
finish at 11 am? great hours =)
August 9th, 2005 at 5:04 pm
Heh. But I was up at 4 am : ) I’ll be leaving at 11 because we home school our daughter and we’re doing a ‘field trip’.
Meanwhile, I usually put in a 10- to 12-hour day, and sometimes longer.
Cheers!
August 10th, 2005 at 6:20 am
Good morning,
I’m reader from Germany, so any financial support using a money order ist tedious for me to arrange. Is there an easier way, like Paypal? I was thinking of a kind small monthly donation – it wouldn’t make much sense if the transfer mode ate up half of it…
Cheers,
Tracey
August 10th, 2005 at 6:28 am
Yup, it still izzzzzzzzzz early here. I found the donations button with the paypal routine afetr hitting the send-button…
August 10th, 2005 at 11:13 am
I hate to say it, but if costs are ‘that’ high, why not do what a lot of small businesses do and host the site on a dedicated home line…
If you use DSL for the ‘family’ line, get cable for the site – or vice versa.
My DSL line has 1.5mb down and 1mb upload for $24/month through quest…… Last time I looked, a decent webhost costs a lot more than that… Yeah, a dedicated home line isn’t going to be as fast during peak times as a mainline webhost but you’ll have a flat rate instead of metered.
Just my 10 cents.
_-Jile-_
Now that I’m back on a broadband line, I intend to contribute more to the siite – I’m glad it’s around.. it fills a niche that gets my daily readership.
August 10th, 2005 at 1:22 pm
Hey _-Jile-_
Been a while : )
‘Costs’ means allowing me to pay for programming, writers, expansion, not to mention the fact that p2pnet is my sole source of income. heh OK. I’ll mention it.
Anyhow, my hosts in the UK (Bytemark) are really good guys and I have a dedicated server. So that’s not the issue.
It’ll be good to see you posting (and/or pumping out an article or two) again
Cheers!
August 10th, 2005 at 6:37 pm
Eventually every site that becomes popular enough realizes they must run their site like a business in order to survive – even if, like this site occassionaly says “we’re not a business, we’re not doing this for the money.”
You might as well throw that sentiment out the window. There is a job to get done here and if you don’t get the business mentality in your head, you’ll shrivel up and die. But it seems as though this is beginning to sink in. Dont feel bad about it, its just a fact of life.
Business means administration, publicity, staff, bills, etc, etc…and of course profit, which for some reason is a dirty word for this site.
It is not a dirty word. Money is a motivator and it will make this all seem worth it. It will pay your bills, hire new staff and help you do the job you wan to do. There is nothing wrong with making money or running a business.
August 10th, 2005 at 6:59 pm
… we’re already motivated. And we don’t think money is a dirty word : )
But we’re doing our best to try to make it work for us rather than the other way around.
So although we recognize the need for “administration, publicity, staff, bills, etc, etc…and of course profit” they’re not the driving forces.
We’re trying to provide honest (admittedly biased in the other direction : ) material.
Cheers!
August 11th, 2005 at 1:24 am
shadow of it’s former self indeed but I won’t go there. P2Pnet is effective and I’d like to keep it that way. email is on the way.
August 12th, 2005 at 1:20 am
Hey dudes, instead of using google ads, and instead of managing ads yourselves, just use adbrite or blogads.
You create an account with them, then paste a snippet of their code in the sides of your site. Then you set the prices.
When people want to advertise, they’ll buy from adbrite or blogads, and then the company informs you that an ad has been purchased, and all you’ve got to do is approve it.
Then once a month the funds are dispersed to you – but keep in mind their cut is 25% of the net.
And another thing, if you’re listed with either one of those places, you’ll be seen by alot of advertisers who are looking for target demographics. Blogads has a lot of political sites, adbrite has a lot of commercial sites. Maybe you should get listed with both, one on each side!
Also, with google ads, you get what, 4 or 5 cents per click? With blogads or adbrite, you’d be making way more than that, since you’re setting your own prices.
And lastly, i don’t work for either company. I am an avid reader but i’m quite poor myself, so I can’t throw something into the tip jar. So this advice is the most I can give, for now.
August 12th, 2005 at 7:10 pm
Gracias : ) I haven’t heard of either, but I’ll certainly look into both.
Adsense is almost, but not quite, a complete waste of time and I really hate using it.
Cheers!
August 12th, 2005 at 10:12 pm
YW. Oh, and I made a mistake, about the 25%.
What I meant to say was they take 25% of the gross sales, not 25% of net.
Good Luck!
August 13th, 2005 at 2:56 am
Well, I’ve ben in touch so we’ll see what happens …
Cheers!
August 13th, 2005 at 6:43 pm
quote: p2pnet was the first, and is still the only, web page to carry original daily news stories, features and commentaries on p2p, digital media and distributed computing events and developments which haven’t been spun, filtered and pre-digested by vested corporate interests.
Slyck has been around presenting original P2P news and content much longer than you have, why should we believe what you write when you lie about something so obvious? And today, you are not the only one doing what you say you are doing… jeez, do you think no one knows about the other sites?
August 13th, 2005 at 8:13 pm
I don’t want to get into an argument on the subject of p2pnet versus Slyck, or any other site. We don’t need to be slagging each other. So this is all I’m going to say:
Slyck has indeed been around for longer. Much longer, in fact. And more power to it. It carries statistics and expert information on p2p applications, with forums as one of its principal features. Slyck news posts are very brief summaries which then point elsewhere.
p2pnet, on the other hand, is a news site (with the emphasis on ‘news’) that’s adding stories “which haven’t been spun, filtered and pre-digested by vested corporate interests” throughout the day and which unashamedly, and without reservation, takes the side of the p2p and file sharing community.
Cheers!
(And by way of a PS, this doesn’t mean we’re ignoring the reality that we’ll soon be awash in corporate p2p applications. The ‘new’ p2pnet will have a section covering them.)
August 13th, 2005 at 8:55 pm
(And by way of a PS, this doesn’t mean we’re ignoring the reality that we’ll soon be awash in corporate p2p applications. The ‘new’ p2pnet will have a section covering them.)
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good! even more opportunities to bash them.
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