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 Saturday, August 16, 2003
At last? A proper article about weblogs?
A picture named blog.gifWell, at least about weblogs surviving in the mad business of advertising. Have a look at more brains. The full article is here as a PDF file, featuring yours truly, The Cartoonist.

Oh bugger - I forgot to mention - it's all in German. Get it translated via Google and whatnot. Sorry about this. [The Cartoonist
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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
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Bloggercon
I'm close to getting bored, but I know that there's a few people who are keeping track of the BloggerCon... [Backup Brain
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