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.