Is there any point to running ads on a small site / blog any more? It's a lot of work to curate your average stream of garbage coming from AdSense etc. I reall

Is there any point to running ads on a small site / blog any more? It's a lot of work to curate your average stream of garbage coming from AdSense etc. I really want to find a targetted ad network from a smaller company who might actually care about individual customers (if anyone knows such an ad network for {food,cooking,photography,travel,restaurants,health} let me know).