The Advertisement For No Advertisements

Mother Davis pauses her morning routine in order to give you a very special message, asking,

Are you tired of unsightly advertisements cluttering up your blog-reading experience? Do your eyeballs get whiplash being drawn to the edge of the screen by those cheesy dancing figures in the mortgage sidebar ads?

Well then, have I got the product for you! It’s an ad-free blog banner to put on the side of your blog, where people can see it, to advertise the fact that your blog has no advertising.

The irony is impossible to miss. We here at Irregular Times believe in clutter, but we like to make it personal, not commercial. The corporate clutter of advertisements rob us of the ability to control our own space here, and cast about what items we choose. We don’t paste corporate ads all over the blog part of Irregular Times, or any other part of Irregular Times, because we don’t want our decisions about what to write to be motivated by what will increase our advertisement click-through rate.

Still, we don’t advertise our lack of advertising. We let the lack speak for itself. For that reason, you won’t see us adding this little blog ad with the ad-free blog owl.

Nonetheless, I don’t want to put down the ad-free owl very harshly. It’s a nice idea for bloggers to announce their freedom from corporate sponsorship. I wish more blogs would do the same, instead of chasing the pennies of profit that come through Google AdSense and similar programs. Corporate-sponsored expression has oversaturated our lives.

I applaud the wisdom of that little owl. I just won’t advertise for it.

Continuing with her regularly-scheduled life,
Mother Davis