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Saturday, August 16, 2003
The commercialization of weblogs...
Joi Ito points at the Economist story and waxes philosophic on the commercialization of weblogs. Which reminded me of of a piece I wrote in 2001 covering similar ground. There are two easy ways to commercialize blogging. The first is to become the known expert on a subject people are willing to subsidize knowing about (the Instapundit model), or to become a source of entertainment and/or enlightenment (the James Lilieks or Dave Berry type of writer. A second way, but one I think depends more heavily on micropayments, is that of the data miner... [Teal Sunglasses]
2:33:13 PM
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Joi Ito points at the Economist story and waxes philosophic on the commercialization of weblogs. Which reminded me of of a piece I wrote in 2001 covering similar ground. There are two easy ways to commercialize blogging. The first is to become the known expert on a subject people are willing to subsidize knowing about (the Instapundit model), or to become a source of entertainment and/or enlightenment (the James Lilieks or Dave Berry type of writer. A second way, but one I think depends more heavily on micropayments, is that of the data miner... [Teal Sunglasses]
2:33:13 PM
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