Thanks to the great dot-com stock crash, online content is about as worthless as a fistful of kopeks at a waterhole in the Sahara. Making money on the web is now the domain of the high-traffic, high-advertising banner-ad sites, like Amazon and Yahoo. Little guys have been deserted by VC money faster than you can count your last paycheck.

However the little guy still needs to struggle on. Online content may be worthless, but it ain't crap. To do my part I'm providing free content... and trying to make a bit of cash on the side. Below are the various monkey making schemes which you are highly recommended to participate in.

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I like entertaining people; always have, always will... and wrongwaygoback is the easiest way for me to do so. I can let free with whatever crazed ideas I have, and hopefully give people a giggle. I only ask one thing in return.

Money!

Well, what were you expecting? Alf pogs?

It costs a fair bit of money to stay online. There's domain fees, hosting fees (though this site is kindly hosted for free by Matthew Haughey), porn subscriptions, paying off the mind police so they'll let me post my stuff… it all adds up.

So in order to remain on the web, I rely on the kindness of strangers.

Think of it as web busking. I'm just like a street performer who you've happened upon by chance. Just like a street performer, I might entertain you for a few minutes, maybe more, and you'll probably move on and never see me again. Unless, of course, it's a mime, whereby you'll beat the crap out of him; but if it's not a mime, before you go you might throw the guy a dollar.

It works the same way here. I ask that, if you've been entertained, you throw me a dollar, or a quarter, or a nickel… whatever you think I'm worth. If you think I'm worth jack, don't give me anything (but please tell me, I just love hate mail).

All the money raised gets reinvested into the site. B.E.G. works as follows:

1. Bribe some guy in the US I've never met to let me use his paypal account in order to have a Revenue Stream.
2. Give readers a massive guilt trip in order to get them to open their otherwise tightwadly-tight-tight wallets.
3. Get the first guy in the US to give a second guy in the US I've never met any money raised.
4. Get the second guy to put the money towards something, like an entry into SXSW or fabulous prizes for any contests (which I like doing, coz I never seem to have to give 'em away).
5. Do it all again

This way I can keep up the site, the animations, the stories, the weblogs, the parodies, without resorting to banner ads or gratuitous links to Amazon. So if you think I'm worth it, throw me a dollar, and if not, thanks for reading, and I hope you check in often to see if I'm improving.

Cheers,
-Neale