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HN and corporate blogs are all ad supported, just not third-party ad-network supported.

• pyre 14y ago
  I think that it's generally understood that we mean '3rd party ads' when referring to advertisement (at least in this context). Google's blogs are obviously ads for its products, but you go there knowing this, yet still want to read the content anyways. When you go to NYTimes to read about world news and get shown an ad for a blender, that's entirely different.
• lsc 14y ago
  That... is a big stretch. That's like saying my personal blog is ad-supported because it advertises me. I mean, it would be more correct to call it an ad than to call it ad-supported. Same with news.ycombinator.com; it does a lot to advertise ycombinator.com, sure... but calling it ad-supported is really a stretch from what most people think that phrase means. I mean, if we are going that far, every article published where the author was compensated mostly in ego (which is to say, nearly everything written) is ad-supported.
  • _delirium 14y ago
    Yeah, that's the caveat I was trying to add with "connected to a profit motive in some other way". If an SaaS startup writes a technical blog, they're probably doing it in part because they hope it'll help bring in some more paying customers. But they aren't typically hoping to monetize the blog itself as their revenue-generating product, through AdSense or BlogAds or similar.