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Lib Dem Blogs Crisis

May 21st, 2009 at 12:24 am

Lib Dem Blogs goes broke. Don't they make much money from advertising?

Ryan Cullen needs money. Lib Dem Blogs got suspended again, and he’s decided enough is enough – he can’t afford to keep paying the costs of running the site and is soliciting donations.

In the meantime, the best thing that you can do, if you want to support lib dem bloggers, is to link to other people’s blog posts.

I’m trying to get a feed aggregator going that might, assuming I can get it working, simulate some of the Lib Dem Blogs experience but the number of blogs are many and I’ve only had the patience to throw together about 40 or so. I’m working on it as we speak.

Please do donate cash to Lib Dem Blogs though :)

UPDATE: If the Yahoo Pipes thing works then it might well be possible for Ryan to significantly reduce his running costs – so it’s worth figuring out even if some kind benefactor dumps all the money he needs on him before the day is through.

UPDATE 2: Experimenting here: Lib Dem Blogs Grab Bag Alpha Feed. It’s not all Lib Dem Blogs.. it’s ones I read, ones I recognise, ones that caught my eye. I don’t know if this works. I don’t know how often it updates, or even if it ever updates. Still, it’s something for now.

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