{"id":1795,"date":"2007-10-04T10:19:05","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T10:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/04\/donorschoose-buy-this-blog\/"},"modified":"2007-10-04T10:19:05","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T10:19:05","slug":"donorschoose-buy-this-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/04\/donorschoose-buy-this-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"DonorsChoose: Buy This Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the time of this writing, the Uncertain Principles blog challenge stands in first place on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/leadershipboard.html?category=17\">ScienceBlogs Leaderboard<\/a>, with just under $2,000 in donations so far. That&#8217;s almost a third of the challenge goal of $6000 in just three days, which is fantastic. Thank you for your generosity.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that still leaves $4,000 to go, which means more donations are definitely wanted. The hip thing to do appears to be to offer <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/ethicsandscience\/2007\/10\/other_bloggers_offer_better_in.php\">incentives for donations<\/a>, and who am I to pass up a good idea. So, here you go:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For a $30 donation to the DonorsChoose challenge, you can buy this blog.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Details, terms, and conditions are below the nice graphical link to the challenge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/viewChallenge.html?id=17166\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-bc34b702798f01b10409f7481ac9dc21-link_donorschoose_small.gif\" alt=\"i-bc34b702798f01b10409f7481ac9dc21-link_donorschoose_small.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Incentive rules:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For each $30 donated, you can choose the topic of one blog post, up to a maximum of five. (Notice that if you got and cashed a gift certificate from Six Apart, that gives you one for free).<\/li>\n<li>This could be a question you&#8217;d like answered, a suggestion for a Dorky Poll, a &#8220;meme&#8221; you&#8217;d like me to pass along, a request for a book or music review&#8211; whatever.<\/li>\n<li>You get to choose the general topic of the post, but I decide what to write about it. I&#8217;ll take suggestions as to the tone and content, but if you ask me to write about the Dallas Cowboys (for example), that doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m obliged to say anything nice about them. I can fulfill that by writing &#8220;The Dallas Cowboys are a festering boil on the ass of the NFL&#8230;&#8221; and going on from there.<\/li>\n<li>(Unless it&#8217;s a really generous donation, in which case, we can talk about it&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>To be even more specific, I will not post anything that might cause legal trouble for me or for Seed, nor will I post on topic that, in my judgement, are beyond the bounds of good taste. My judgements in matters of content are absolute and final.<\/li>\n<li>By opening the shrink wrap on this blog post, you agree to abide by these terms and conditions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To claim the incentive:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Forward me a copy of the confirmation email from DonorsChoose acknowledging your donation (orzelc at steelypips dot org).<\/li>\n<li>Include the topic or topics you would like me to write about with that email.<\/li>\n<li>If you would like to be anonymous or pseudonymous, I will respect that, but make sure you tell me that in the email.<\/li>\n<li>If you have a blog or site that you would like linked in the eventual post, tell me that, too. Link requests are subject to the content restrictions mentioned above&#8211; i.e., I will not link approvingly to things I don&#8217;t agree with, or link to anything at all that I think is in poor taste or legally dubious.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I will pledge to write something about each topic selected by a donor, and acknowledge that donor in the eventual post. I can&#8217;t commit to any particular time scale for the writing and posting of those articles&#8211; I do have a day job, and a book to write&#8211; but I will try to get to them as quickly as I can.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, the goal of this incentive program is to bring in new donations, but if you&#8217;ve already contributed, you&#8217;re still eligible. I will accept donor requests through 11:59 pm on November 1, 2007, and only donations to <strong>this year&#8217;s<\/strong> challenge are eligible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the time of this writing, the Uncertain Principles blog challenge stands in first place on the ScienceBlogs Leaderboard, with just under $2,000 in donations so far. That&#8217;s almost a third of the challenge goal of $6000 in just three days, which is fantastic. Thank you for your generosity. Of course, that still leaves $4,000&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/04\/donorschoose-buy-this-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DonorsChoose: Buy This Blog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donorschoose_fundraiser","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}