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Of course you are! And because you like us so much, as a Friend Of CultureKitchen, you'll get schwagged and help us raise money to keep doing what we do best : serve fresh dissent daily.

Have you molested our advertisers yet?

American Greetings has a hysterical grandpa in a superhero suit promo for their new eCard service. Go check them out.

We also have the great honor to have been premiumed by my favorite Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards. If I weren't so in love with his wife, I'd so hit that. Honestly, Elizabeth Edwards is the reason why I drool over his candidacy. So go hit that ad.

And don't forget to generously frottage your mouse all over our eager GoogleAds. The more you do, the more we get off with a nice paycheck at the end of the month.

Yeah. Pimping does the advertising good.

Another Friday, another day to remind you to get your advertiser freak on. Thanks to :

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Make sure you also peruse the rotating sponsors on our GoogleAds banners. You're visits to our advertisers are the simplest way to make a cash-like contribution to our coffers.

Remember also to pick up some goodies over at our CafePress store, the new MaryCheneyBaby store and our Amazon Affiliate sidebar.

If you would like to advertise or sponsor our blog (or are able to refer us to an interested party), please email us at ads [ at ] culturekitchenmedia.com.

'Tis the season for giving y'all. As you know, we are a bootstrapped operation fully funded through advertising and sponsorships. We don't bug you for money because we believe we will, one day, become profitable through advertising.

Traffic in the world of blogs is one way to get well paid through advertising. But who clicks on an ad and for how long they stay at the advertiser's sites is probably more important than the traffic we provide. When it comes down to it, that's what targetted or niche marketing is all about. It is not about volume but quality.

So, for the sake of helping out your favouritest (yes, I just made that up) blog in the world, please take a moment and to peruse our advertisers sites.

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Also, don't forget to pick up some goodies over at our CafePress store, the new MaryCheneyBaby store and our Amazon Affiliate sidebar.

If you would like to advertise or sponsor our blog, please email us at ads [ at ] culturekitchenmedia.com.

It's Sunday morning. Imagine you are in the church of culturekitchen. Now imagine this is our collection plate.

Let's talk about money.

Believe it or not but we don't make more money with more traffic. We make more money with more people going into the advertisers sites through our ads.

I have been tracking for the past few months how Google handles the CTR (click-through rate) for this site. Unfortunately, with Google I have no control over what I can charge for advertisng. They impose the click-thru rate on the site. How do I know they are pricing click-thrus on our site? I have a widget running on Firefox that allows me to track the CTR for Adsense.

I have noticed that we get penalized for getting more traffic but not more click-thrus. Yup. If traffic goes up, then Google reduces the amount per click we get. So for example, we were doing more than $1/click last month. We have 50% more traffic this month, so they've downgraded our CTR to $.060.

Now, you have to understand : I am not asking you to endlessly click through their ads. I will actually get thrown out of the Google Adsense program if I request that from you. It is explicitly state in their Terms Of Service agreement.

What I am asking you to do is something a bit different; especially since, if traffic does increase, I can charge more money through our BlogAds.

At BlogAds, we set the price. The more traffic one of my sites gets, the more I can charge for advertising.

Do you get the conundrum? On the one hand, more traffic but less clicks looses us money from Google Adsense. Yet more traffic translates into higher adspace pricing through BlogAds.

So what I am asking you to do? Help us increase the quality of the traffic to our site.

Help us raise funds by buying through our Amazon affiliates store. Every time you get an item through our site we will get a percentage that we will be able to put back into the community towards the hosting, maintenance and development of the site.

This is still in its developmental stages. If you would like to suggest a section for the store, please leave us your thoughts in the comments section. If you would like to curate a page of your own, also let us know, so we can upgrade your membership to Store Editor.

If you would like to add to our review section, also drop us a note here. We are going to start growing those soon.

If you are a publicist and are interested in having our editors or communty members try our your product or review your books, CDs, movies, theather shows, concerts, DVDs, art exhibitions, etc.; please send your inquiries to tips@culturekitchen.com

Take some good ol' analog dissent with you to the beach, the playground, the cafe or the commute. Buy through our links and you will be helping in our efforts to maintain the community growing and pay our editors to do their jobs.

Do you want to suggest titles? Then go to each section and leave your suggestions in the comments section.

If you are bursting with ideas and would like to become our Bookstore Editor, please drop us at note at admin@culturekitchen.com

If you are a publicist and would like to submit a book for consideration, please send your inquiries to tips@culturekitchen.com

There's been a bumper crop of angry democrats rushing to publish their thoughts about what is wrong either with the Republican party, the Democrats or the country itself.

Check out the growing list of people who believe they can change the world with one book at a time.

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Lynn Siprelle died on Mother's Day at 9:50 pm.

She was revived 30 seconds later.

Don't worry. The prognosis is good. She gets a defibrillator today in the afternoon (PST). That means though, she will have a long way to recovery. Two more weeks in the hospital and maybe another 3 or 4 more weeks before she can resume working.

Lynn needs our help.

Lynn has given a lot to the blogosphere. It's time to give some back.