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Wed, 16 Nov 2005 04:28:23 +0000

Betting the Farm on Blogging Pays Off For Some

The brilliant Hugh Macleod, who collaborated with me on the mainstream blog project Up Your Budget notes that keeping up with the blogosphere feels like a full-time job now. “But yeah,” Hugh writes, “I’m glad the whole thing has exploded. A lot of us b…

By: Jack Yan

Jack Yan — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 18:34:54 +0000

Mainstream also means that the blog-abusers will get more plentiful. You already ﬁnd blog-spam in Technorati: people with fake blog posts ﬂogging products. Others are doing comment-spam. There is a danger as blogs can become devalued now.

By: Vinu

Vinu — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 08:56:04 +0000

I think it may also be because blogs have gone mainstream — the things that are interesting is different for the common people. That means what was interesting for the bloggers in 2004 is no longer interesting for people in 2005 ( I mean the new people!!)
Content and constant update may have nothin to do with that … or they may be highly correlated!

By: Andres B

Andres B — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 02:05:50 +0000

The question that springs to mind is what’s the next step.
Is “the whole thing” going to fade away? Thus your bet on the future goes south.
Or is it going to evolve? Allowing you to grow along with it (or making it grow).
Does anyone know? Can anyone know?

By: nick davis

nick davis — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 22:14:24 +0000

Hugh — Don’t fall into the “Have to Blog Everyday” trap

In this post Hugh wonders about the blogging “powerlaw”, and says that to stay at the top you must blog constantly.
I don’t know about other people who digest their blogs through an aggregator, but that’s probably the fastest way to get taken out of my ag