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Why Is Quantity Still A Metric?

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 | 18 Comments »

A few days ago, a blog network named 451 Press took off the gloves and named itself the largest blog network in the world based on its sheer size of >300 blogs supposedly being updated daily. They’ve now surpassed b5media in terms of numbers, and I can only guess that the move was deliberate […]

Money Buys Lots Of Things, Including Objective Feedback For b5media

Friday, October 6th, 2006 | 3 Comments »

A lot has been said regarding “global new media network” b5media taking on $2 million in funding, but for me the most level-headed opinions always come from those totally disconnected with the investment or the company.
Nick Douglas wrote a scathing entry saying that b5media doesn’t deserve any money. Normally a dissenting view isn’t such […]

Passion and Money: The Pro-Blogging Dilemma

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006 | 9 Comments »

About four years ago, Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.net started his first blog and was hooked. Since then he’s started at least 16 more blogs on various topics that can all be monetized, and he’s now one of the most famous “professional bloggers” in the blog world. Darren’s a friend of mine, and I […]

Om Malik’s Going Pro, The Cat’s Out Of The Bag

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006 | 1 Comment »

I was very surprised tonight to see that SiliconBeat had the drop on info that I’ve known for about a month or so but have kept my mouth locked tight about, simply because I didn’t know when he was going to announce it. My main man Om Malik is leaving Business 2.0 magazine and […]

Blogs to Riches: Popularity and Traffic in the Blogosphere

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006 | 1 Comment »

Clive Thompson’s article Blogs to Riches over at the hot new New York Magazine website has got to be the must-read article of the year so far. The premise of the article is that the rich keep getting richer, and in the blog world this translates to blogs with the highest traffic keep gaining […]

CorkForce.com Up For Sale

Thursday, July 28th, 2005 | No Comments »

Colin Devroe, CTO of 9rules and all-around technoguru has put his pride and joy up for sale:
Corkforce.com, a wine enthusiast weblog, is up for auction at Sitepoint.
We’ve recently had great success selling sites and domains in the forums there, so give it a look, and throw your bid down for this quality weblog. Bidding […]

Sony Paying $25k Per Month for Lifehacker Blog Sponsorship

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005 | 9 Comments »

Kris Oser from AdAge.com drops the inside scoop (free registration required, or BugMeNot with clarus84[at]hotmail.com/fpdcB2B) about Sony’s sponsorship deal with Nick Denton’s Gawker Media and their new Lifehacker blog:
The deal, which also includes placements on Gizmodo, Gawker’s earlier gadget title, will cost Sony in the range of $25,000 a month, according to a source close […]

Advertisers and Blogs

Tuesday, August 10th, 2004 | 1 Comment »

The blog medium started out pure and focused on content, and that is what drew in the masses. Every word was an opinion that was blatantly unbiased (or more often biased, but still blatant about it) and could be trusted.

Then the ads came.
Blogging is definitely a much more mature medium than it was a couple […]

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