See the tip jar over to the left? It says SUPPORT BLOG helpfully so you can...support this blog if you have a PayPal account. It's really quite easy to tip $5.00 or $10.00 US and it helps pay the bills.
Then underneath the TIP JAR you see a new link, helpfully suggested by Timeless Prototype, which is DONATE IN LINDENS INWORLD IN SECOND LIFE. That way you can drop in your Lindens easily.
If you click on that link for DONATE INWORLD you will TELEPORT to my summer home in Derwent, called The Gilded Cage. There, after you have wandered in the garden among the peacocks and turkeys, and admired my upscale furniture and rare Art Deco Barnesworth home that I don't think is sold anymore, and read my notices of protest to my Linden neighbours in the opensource cult, you can LEAVE A TIP IN LINDENS! WOOT!
Now, you ask. Why would I ask for tips? What, am I not in business? Am I not a big believer in commerce instead of Free? In fact, one of my little protests against Free is the sale of Linden flamingos on my front lawn for $1 in a variety of designer colours with the scripted notice that in fact they are free lol. You'd be amazed how many people buy them!
Well, of course I am in business, which is why you should either buy my Nautilus-but-Nice lamp in my Summer home for only $10 or rent my land. But I'm also happy to take donations because:
o this blog is a labour of love with ads barely covering a DSL bill
o I maintain the SL Public Land Preserve, more than 100,000 meters at 37 locations of parks, forests, sacred sites, recreational activities, a rent-free market for newbies, etc. that you can enjoy. If you like, you can join the SLPLP for a one-time fee of $50 to help support the search ads and you can then lay prims in the camping areas -- that is, old-fashioned camping of the tent-and-binoculars sort. We also have newbies tutorials in Ross and Iris, fishing holes scattered around from 7Seas, boating, freebies, exploring, Paradise Blankets (the multiple changing holodecks on the picnic blankets), etc.
You can also donate tier if you have an extra 512 m2 which enables me to go on matching the 50,000 plus from donors with 50,000 of Ravenglass Rentals lands. As always I'm grateful to Clubside Granville, Something Something, and all the other tier donors who support this project and the literally hundreds of people who come through from all over the world and leave tips from L$1 to $500 (some people put in their monthly stipends) or more. You can pick up a financial report in the tree house in Botany's Grove.
A tip jar is rather like a JIRA where you can't vote no, isn't it?
Posted by: Melissa Yeuxdoux | July 17, 2009 at 11:52 PM