Jakob Nielson: "Blog postings will always be commodity content: there's a limit to the value you can provide with a short comment on somebody else's work. Such postings are good for generating controversy and short-term traffic, and they're definitely easy to write. But they don't build sustainable value."
The most visited article on SSR/CR is the essay on Federalist No.10. The next most popular is the very long and detailed article on Australian Vexillology.
That has to be balanced though with this blog really (now, since it ceased to be so strongly SSR) being for me and my enjoyment. As a consequence I often drop jots as opposed to large articles. I have a lot less time these days and I still enjoy writing, but I just don't always have the spare minutes/hours to do so. An article like the vexillogical one can takes weeks.
I have google ad-sense on SSR/CR and it returns about $100 every few months. Enough to make the site fiscally sustainable. I suspect it is the articles, as opposed to the blog jots, that make that possible.
