Making money

Despite being quite new, this site is already starting to get a substantial amount of traffic... if current trends continue (and there's no reason to think they won't), then there is the opportunity for some revenue from that traffic in terms of unobtrusive advertising.

Now... I'm not a great fan of website advertising and the first thing I install when putting in a new browser is ad blocking software - that being said, I don't really mind the Google style stuff, it's out of the way, and, occasionally relevant and handy.

Following on from my meeting with Chuka this morning (which I'll post on later), there are some ideas that could be great to get the support of those folks who don't spend their days and nights glued to a screen.  Unfortunately, traditional public awareness campaigns are many orders of magnitude more costly than delivery via the internet.  While I am happy to pay for the cost of the internet side of things (within reason), traditional campaigning is outside our budget.

I do stress that any revenues generated would  only be spent on campaign related expenses.

What do people think? Sound off in the comments? I'll hold off on making a decision for a month or so to give people a chance to offer their opinions.

For completeness, and curiosity's sake, here's a summary of the money I've spent so far:

$7.95 (about a fiver) - StreathamTube.com domain
£12 - Ebaying a new toner cartridge (but we use that for other things as well)
Free - Twittering
Free - Facebook group
Free - Mailing lists x 2 (Google Groups)
Free - this site hosting on blogger
Free - Yahoo pipes, backend for RSS on site
Free - Mail hosting (and docs, calendar, contacts etc - although we haven't used them yet) on Google Apps
Free - Google Wave