To donate or not to donate

I know, I know. I keep saying I'm back then I disappear the next day. I promise this time I am here to stay. There's a lot that has happened to me and the world since my last post, but I wanted to touch on one issue that's now hotly debated in the deaf blogging world.

To donate to bloggers or not.

This whole thing erupted when Ridor asked for donations to his blog and another blogger attacked him for that, and told him to get a job.

The truth is - a lot of popular blogs ask for donations, but in different ways. DailyKos has a store where some of the proceeds go to the site. Bloggers have every right to do what they want on their blog. They can talk about whatever they want to talk about, and most certainly do they have the right to ask for donations. Don't like the idea? Then don't donate.

You can read the whole thing here.

Ridor's donation request post

Berke's response

Ridor's response

Berke's 2nd response

Say what you want about Ridor, but he is a legend in the world of Deaf Blogs. Just a sJerome Armstrong of MyDD is the 'blogfather" of Democratic party blogs, Ridor is the blogfather of Deaf blogs. We owe him a great deal of gratitude.