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Blogs Bring Back Dot-Com Poster Boy
An anonymous reader writes "Wired has a profile of Jason Calacanis, the former Dot-Com bubble rider, and now the mind behind the sale of Weblogs, Inc. to AOL." From the article: "Calacanis and Alvey wanted to get in on the action, but the scale and limitations of blogs bugged them. 'We decided that one blog, like Rafat's, could make tens of thousands of dollars a year,' says Alvey. 'Definitely enough for one person who works 24 hours a day to sustain a business. But how could you get so that you could add more people?' The answer, they decided, was to build a network of blogs."
There is another business venture consisting of associated blogs - Pajamas Media - which should be mentioned in this context. Its business model is based on creating a multi-blog advertising system. As far as I know, pajamas uses serious political blogs rather than "daily diary" sorts of things.
Perhaps we need a different term for serious blogs about whatever subject. Also a term for the commenter community that grows up around each one. Here's your chance to get famous, although Bill Quick, who invented the term "blogosphere," doesn't seem to have gathered enough fame from that.
The only good weather is bad weather.
Those interested in blog networks should check out: http://www.blognetworklist.com/ . There is a lot of interesting information about blog networks there (rankings, traffic, size, etc.)
Simpy
When blogging (disclaimer, I am a weblogsinc blogger) I often find that blogging has a certain stigma, especially with PR companies. Most of the time, I refer to myself as lead writer of an online publication.
The difference, to me, is blogs are more 'guerilla' than places like Slate, or other online newspapers. The gamut of weblogsinc is content, and the focus being raw and unfiltered.
Now would be an opportune time to plug my work, but we'll just say you can read it at weblogsinc.