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Who pays for this blog? I receive no fees, considerations, etc. etc. for the posts on this blog nor do I have any plans to accept any. My salary is paid by Canwest Global Communications Corp. I work for that company as the Ottawa-based National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service. The blog publishing platform used here is called Blogware and it's developed by Tucows Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. My use of Blogware should not be taken as an endorsement of that company. Like all Blogware users, I do not pay any fees for the use of this service. I participate in program. Google pays me some money and, for that, I give Google some space on this site to display ads. Google sells those ads and Google, not me, decides what advertising content you are seeing. I do not filter these ads and take no responsibility for them. Readers should not assume I endorse any of the products or services advertised here. If you think other disclosures are appropriate in this space, I'd like to hear from you. All of my contact details are always at www.davidakin.com You can read more about this section |
Re: Who pays for this blog? Some disclaimers
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DavidAkin
Colin McKay asks about my domain registrar and whether or not there is a tale waiting to be revealed and I'm happy to oblige. There is no tale, so far as I know but here you are.
I have no idea who the domain registrar is for blogware.com but I assume it is Tucows as Tucows is the world's largest wholesaler of domain names.
As for my own domains -- I own the rights to davidakin.com, davidakin.ca, and akin.ca -- my domain registrar was EasyDNS of Toronto but I am in the process of moving those domains to DomainPeople of Vancouver. Why? Simple. Price. I pay out of my own pocket the costs of registering and maintaining those domains and DomainPeople is cheaper than EasyDNS.
Those sites are hosted by a tiny New Brunswick company called PJMCo and, once again, I pay the full freight, just like another customer of PJMCo's, for the hosting service it provides.
While we're on the topic of plumbing, I'm happy to disclose that I have a high-speed Internet-over-cable service at my home, for which I, like every other customer, pay the full fare.
I've decided against posting these details in my disclosure statement for they seem to me ancillary or only partly related to the production of this blog. By that I mean that I could have no relationships with any domain registrar and still have this blog, as it is up to Tucows to maintain the domain. Similarly, I could maintain this blog from any Internet connection -- work, a library, a Wi-Fi hotspot -- and, as a result, the fact that I pay for my home connection seems less important so far as the resources needed to publish this blog. Feel free to continue the argument, if you feel otherwise ...
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