I never understood why /. complained about making money, how the heck else do they support themselves? Just blows my mind.

In the meantime, I hope you have fun at your camp… and pray you don’t get hit by a crowd from http://www.somethingawful.com!

Congrats on the /. experience, hopefully it was good overal.

I had to make comment about it on my small community site linked to from my name. By the way the stats for your site are pretty interesting to see.

Let’s be real about this, if those guys that gave Darren abuse are so smart and savvy, how come we don’t see their work on /.

Just too funny how these guys hide behind the internet.

Slashdot hasn’t, imho, done itself any favours with some of the comments being made on there. And boy is it a confusing site to navigate round.

Fortunately episode this will slip into the night and be forgotten.

OT /

Jeremy, I’d not seen your site, at least not recently. Did you used to be a were-here.com guy about 5 or 6 years ago? I’ve got vague recollections of a flashed based site, might not have been you though

OT /

Jeremy, somehow knew your site name when I saw your name, but before I clicked the link, but I can’t think why…..

Were you an were-here.com guy about 5 years ago? Other than that, I can’t think why I’d know who you are??

/Normal Service On/

Slashdot hasn’t, imho, done itself any favours with some of the comments being made on there. And boy is it a confusing site to navigate round.

Fortunately episode this will slip into the night and be forgotten.

Because it’s happening because of stuff I do or say, it tends to get personal, but most folk are nice enough to click on a few ads, drop a few comments and emails and generally don’t leave the place too badly done up.

My first blogosphere-dotting, though, was a mess. Hundreds of comments about the same subject across a range of posts (think: graffiti), loads of swearing (first time I ever edited a comment… and the only time) and I even received a death-threat phone call.

Good times ;-)

Glad you had some positive experience from it all. There’s always the likelihood that some people won’t like what you do, how you say things, what money you make, etc. – and it just gets magnified on the Net. Then again, so does the good stuff.

Can I also say thanks for being open with your stats (if some of the more moronic ./ers had actually bothered to follow some of your links, looked at the independently-produced stats you graciously make public, they would surely have less grounds for disputing your traffic and income) – it’s encouraging to see some of your blogs and their development. Sitemeter’s pretty cool for the overall picture of things.

Keep it up, and I hope your hectic first month back doesn’t cause burn out. Ride the waves!

The fact that you;ve got some new subscribers must mean that you are doing something right :)

shame about some of the abuse – it really makes you wonder if the fuss is worth it!

mark

I read the article in SMH too and I’ve been here almost everyday since. Nice to see an Aussie blogger doing well. Inspirational stuff.

Its amazing how the folk on many webdev forums are always so cynical about monetizing a website!

Andrew

Congratulation for the good work. However, do not bother with that revenue thing… it is typical to occidental people to think that revenue is as sacred (even more than sex) and private thing. In other countries, like India, people think that revenue is of the public domain. Everything changes depending on the point of view you adopt.

Salutations,

Fred

But for you – seems some of the /.ers came round for the party at your house and some of them slept over, left some tips in the jar (already bulging!) and promised to come round again. You’ll drink to that, no doubt ;-)

Congrats, man! We were indirectly Slashdotted about two months ago when the boss switched from PC’s to Mac. It was an all week party.

Enjoy.