[Foundation-l] Advertisement and service at the same time

Fri Mar 21 02:46:01 UTC 2008

The idea in theory is nice, in practice it may very easily get ugly.

The advertisements may contain false or misleading information giving undue
weight.

Also this may be impractical for the majority of our articles. No one wants
George W. Bush merchandise. :) Joke aside, what kind of an advertisement
would we put on an article on the second world war or a pharaoh from ancient
Egypt.

Not so surprisingly, aside from fiction related topics most of our articles
would run into problems. We already do select advertisement by having
articles on commercial products such as movies, TV episodes and books. Maybe
we could ask such companies for cash in donations.

   - White Cat

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Florence Devouard <anthere at anthere.org>
wrote:

> Would it make a difference...
>
> if an advertisement is only there to reach out to the attention of the
> reader, and is only beneficial to the one paying for the advertisement
> (eg, a Ford ad on a Toyota article)
>
> or if the advertisement also was a bringing a benefit to the reader ?
>
> I ask the question because my husband opinion is very clear on the
> matter. When he reads an article about a BOOK, he would like that we
> provide as a service, a link to a website where he can directly buy the
> book. Typically, an Amazon link. It would be an advertisement of course,
>  but it would bring a service to the reader. It would not be a
> GoogleAds.  We would be able to exactly select which articles we want
> the ad to be on (for example, all articles about books. all articles
> about DVD). It is not damaging the NPOV of the article. It could be
> identified in a special area. Deals could be made with one, or several
> providers. It would bring some money, but not huge amounts of money (who
> could disrupt the organization...).
>
> ant
>
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