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Are Blogging and Unemployment Related?

Posted by chrisd on from the bloggers-blogging-about-bloggers-blogging dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "The Washington Post is really nice with bloggers. Yesterday, it carried an article named "Free Speech -- Virtually," or "Legal Constraints on Web Journals Surprise Many 'Bloggers'". Today, Cynthia L. Webb focuses on an hypothesis from Chris Gulker, which he exposed in a column published by The Independent, "The View from Silicon Valley: Bloggers come in from the cold." As said Chris Gulker, "Many of us are Webloggers 'bloggers' for short. It would be interesting to see if there's a correlation between the meteoric rise of blogging, the practice of keeping a frequently-updated online journal, and the rise of unemployment in Silicon Valley and other tech corridors. Check this column for a summary or the original article for more details."

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  1. It's the fault of the mainstream media by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Could it be that blogging is more a reaction against mainstream media conquering the web, with portals and pages that look alike like one TV-Channel to another?

    Or am i the only one that gets the impression that the web looked much more interessting and much less boring 2 to 5 years ago?

  2. Re:Blogging will cost you a job by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    are you speaking from experience ?

    i know at least one writer that got a job *because* she was able to demonstrate her skills and attract a large amounts of traffic.

    she turned that job into a very lucrative career, as well as a book.

  3. Indirect Correlation by slipkid · · Score: 2, Informative

    I used to blog all the time when I was employed. Now that I no longer have a job, I hardly ever feel like it anymore.

    Does that make me a rebel?