Comments on: Blogs to Riches – New York Magazine

By: MarketingMonger

MarketingMonger — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:06:34 +0000

Marketing Beyond the Gatekeepers

Lately the blogoshere has been buzzing about the New York Magazine article entitled Blogs to Riches – The Haves and Have-Nots of the Blogging Boom. Hugh Macleod talked about it so did Guy Kawasaki and Darren Rowse and Gawker and…

By: buzz

buzz — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:37:54 +0000

Dominant mode?

…from the article:
No one knows this better than Elizabeth Spiers, the original Gawker girl. She is arguably the most famous professional blogger, since she invented its dominant mode: a titillating post delivered with a snarky kicker, casual profanity, and genuine fan-girl enthusiasm—sonnets made of dirt. Yet no good deed goes unpunished; the player-hater e-mail she received during her tenure at the gossip site was astonishing. “I’d get these e-mails saying, ‘You’re a dirty slut who can’t get laid,’ ” she recalls. “How can I be dirty slut and not get laid?”

By: La Lara

La Lara — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:28:09 +0000

I found article interesting in the sense that it presents a broad picture. And then, it’s a magazine article, which is as such different than a post on the blog specialised for the topic.

By: Kashif Aziz

Kashif Aziz — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:41:25 +0000

I am trying a mix between Record Label and Boutique approach.

By: Danger Stevens

Danger Stevens — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 04:44:12 +0000

I’ve actually tried the record-label (shotgun) approach with some success. After 30 posts or so I can kinda tell what needs to be abandoned and what deserves my time. But still I’ve found that a couple of my abandoned blogs with just a few posts actually brought in plenty of revenue after a few months and I was able to re-address them. I wouldn’t have discovered that market if I hadn’t tried enough options.

By: Asian Playboy

Asian Playboy — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 03:11:44 +0000

Good article.

I guess for most of us homegrown blogger types, we’re the boutique shops. I mean, at least I am.

I wouldn’t have the attention span necessary to shotgun out multiple blogs. I mean, how many blogs can I write about getting laid?!