April 20, 2006
Can bloggers make money debate...
Lots of great chatter from lots of smart folks on the WSJ "can bloggers make money" debate...
Click on calacanis.com to pick up the links to the debate.
My favorite is from Dave Winer:
When these guys debate about blogs making money, they're answering a different question: If you try to do a magazine using the same software people use to write blogs, can you get enough advertising revenue to pay your writers and also make a profit.
It's natural for people who come from the magazine and newspaper business to cast the question this way, but it's skewed thinking, and will look anachronistic a few years from now.
It's as if they asked how many miles per gallon of oats a car gets, a few years after horseless carriages came along. The question doesn't even make sense.
A person with a blog is analogous to a source in the old publishing world. Sources don't get paid directly, but we do get paid indirectly. "
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