good! even more opportunities to bash them.

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.)

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?

Cheers!

Adsense is almost, but not quite, a complete waste of time and I really hate using it.

Cheers!

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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

Meanwhile, I usually put in a 10- to 12-hour day, and sometimes longer.

Cheers!

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!