A simple manifesto

I was working on a lengthy wrap up of a show I attended but based on what went down there, I give you a short manifesto instead.

I am not for sale. 

Is not everything for sale?  Does not everyone have their price?

I have a job yet no company owns my soul.  I am paid for my insight yet not even I control my muse.  I am paid to speak, yet my voice can remain free.

This online space is a privilege and a refuge for me.  It is a place of others and more than me and my words. It is a conversation and as such it is not mine to sell.

There are those who wish influence and desire a candy coated portrayal of reality.  This is not the place for these people.  This is where I share how I see the world and that, like me, is not for sale.

[Anyone willing to design a banner ad and/or a blog badge with a message along the lines of "This space not for sale"???]

UPDATE 04-26:

Thanks to Mario Vellandi for these banner ads!  Click to enlarge.

UPDATE 04-27:

Hee Haw Marketing joins the ranks of those contributing to "I am not for sale".  Many thanks to Paul for the blog badge below.  I'm afraid to ask who in his family or circle of friends is featured in this photo.  ;)

(click for larger version)

UPDATE 04-28:

Katie Chatfield is not for sale.  Or as she put it "I’m not [a] died in the wool opponent to people making money out of their content […] But it needs to be the decision of the content creator: never NEVER without my permission".  I think this is a CRITICAL point.  My manifesto was not to argue against people making money.  I'm simply fighting for the integrity of what I create and the spaces in which I create.  If someone can get paid AND maintain that integrity, great.

UPDATE 04-30:

Gavin is not for sale. 

"A new opportunity opens every day.
It opens with the page.
The pen.
Another rant.
In control? Hell no!
We are in slavery to the chaos of our lives.
This is the manifesto of one."

UPDATE 05-07:

David from AdPulp joins in and I believe is the FIRST to re-run one of our donated banner ads!  Thanks David!

UPDATE 05-09:

Redmarketer is not for sale.  I totally concur that a badge is not necessary and certainly appreciate the nod and the story!

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Post a banner or badge on your site.  Link to your own personalized version of the manifesto or this one here.  Up to you.  Send me the URL and I will publicize that you are also not for sale.