He was told not to take ads from Adam Selene.

A bicycle maker is taking personal ads to a new level.

Her blog does not take ads, and she sees it mostly as a way to promote her writing.

They take ads in the magazines of the shopping clubs; they're not pushing it at a high level.

"Look, taking ads and pasting them up all day is not very creative," he said.

As a result, chat services that do take ads receive the lowest rates of any type of Internet service.

Ms. magazine, on the other hand, has been profitable since it stopped taking ads in 1990.

"I said it wouldn't kill him to take ads," he said.

One question being asked is whether Allure will take ads away from its sister publications.

The other magazines did not balk at taking ads with another publisher's trappings.