Blogging Is My Business. Business Is Good.

Though I haven’t real­ly a point or argu­ment to make, I’m pass­ing this along as more of an FYI.

Blogging is a new art form, and it’s a new a busi­ness form. Blogs are becom­ing com­mer­cial, make no mis­take about that. While Big Media is try­ing to grok out the busi­ness mod­el of blogs, a few savvy entre­pre­neurs are already out there run­ning a model.

Jason Calacanis, for whose com­pa­ny Weblogs, Inc., I write the Design Weblog and the Magazine Design Weblog, two com­mer­cial blogs, is one of those peo­ple. Following Monday night’s debate about blog­ging as a busi­ness at NYC Bloggers event in SOHO, Jason post­ed this on his per­son­al blog:

I learned from doing media before that in order to do great things in pub­lish­ing you need mon­ey. It’s not the only thing you need, but if you want great writ­ers to spend a great deal of time mak­ing great things they need a great pay­check. I want our writ­ers to be over paid. I want them to get more mon­ey then they have ever received before for writ­ing. If we can make writ­ers a ton of mon­ey for doing what they love they will love work­ing with us.

Bottom line: I want to give writ­ers the best deal in town. Better then the New York Times, bet­ter then Vanity Fair and bet­ter then Nick Denton. That is a lofty goal I know, but if you don’t have goals you don’t get any­where in life. 

You might also want to check out: The BloggerCon wiki for Making Blogs Make Money

Blogging is going pro.

I, dear read­ers, am a semi-professional blog­ger. Never heard that phrase before, have you? Pretty soon I, and many oth­ers, will be pro­fes­sion­al bloggers–those who make a liv­ing from writ­ing blogs.

Blogging is my busi­ness. Business is good.