In a post yesterday, Duncan Riley stated “Blogging 2.0: It’s All About The User“, arguing that in many ways blogging has reaching a paradigm shift in which the nature of the technology – and the communication it facilitates – has changed.
“If blogging 1.0 was about enabling the conversation on each blog, blogging 2.0 is about enabling the conversation across many blogs and supporting sites and services. The conversation has matured and no longer is it acceptable to believe that as a content owner you hold exclusive domain over conversations you …

Late last week I sent Duncan Riley a series of questions in what I thought was a vain attempt to gain his thoughts on some questions I’d been pondering.  In typical accommodating Duncan style, he’s just responded to one of them; and his response has got me to thinking.
The Question: Advertising on Blogs – When to embrace and when to avoid
The first subject I covered in my email dealt with the inclusion of advertisements on blogs, asking him:
One of the contentious issues in blogging seems to be the inclusion of …