OLC Scoring for 2011

On 10/20/2010 6:06 AM, Bruce Hoult wrote:
On Oct 20, 6:37 pm, wrote:
If you go to the OLC web site, on the right pane you will see
who pays the bills (and funds their retirements) over at OLC.
The sponsors. They are all there, Gold Sponsors, Silver Sponsors
etc. Each can be thousands of $$ a month. Your donations are
peanuts.

There are really a lot of them! I don't immediately see what donation
is required to get to each level of sponsorship.

If the actual web hosting of OLC costs more than a few hundred a month
then they are being ripped off. Is everyone under "About Us" being
paid a salary?


Is the OLC following the Google model, where you provide a service for
free, then use that service as an advertising medium? If so, the
"sponsors" actually are advertisers, and they presumably think that
their advertising dollars are being well spent.

Are you sure that the advertisers are spending thousands of dollars a
month? Maybe each is spendng a few thousand per year?