Around Christmas of last year, I noted that I was toying with the idea of adding advertisements to KernelTrap [story]. Now the time is approaching quickly, as I've finally gotten around to finishing up the necessary code. This begs the question, what reaction will readers have to seeing text ads and/or banner ads on what up to now has always been advertisement-free pages?

The idea is to display a text ad toward the top of either side column, and banner ads at the top of each page. I will personally verify all banner content, attempting to keep the ads as topical and non-distracting as possible. For example, I have no intention of displaying flash ads or animated gifs.

I'm very interested in feedback from regular readers. Please leave your reflections below.