Self-service advertising
A little initiative by Evan Williams of Blogger: text-based, self-service ads distributed across the network of weblog sites. The idea is originally Google's. Their Adwords program allows small advertisers to write short classified ads, and pay by credit card. No design, no hassle. It's popular, and others are taking up the idea. These may be the darkest days of web publishing, but with self-service advertising, and developing micropayment networks, brighter revenue models may finally be emerging.
Evhead on text-based ads
pyRads