Seems, however, that there's a new breed. Professional Bloggers. Now, you might just think that this is another little dig, and that I'm just going after a little sympathy at having to write more than once a week in this thing I call blog. Not so. I remember, not so long ago, that there was a case where a blog was used as a product launch advertising campaign (apparently not very successfully, as i can't remember what the product was).
In fact, professional bloggers do exist! I was surprised to find these headlines on google news:
Kiwi blogger logs on to make a living
New Zealand Herald, New Zealand -
Read/WriteWeb attracts more than 600000 page views per month and is linked to over 4000 other blogging sites, making it the world's 51st most popular blog
Tools of Trade: Blogging to Inform
Carolina Newswire (press release), NC -
A popular off-line reader is Feed Demon (feeddemon.com). There are scores of popular blog aggregators available.
Could your blog earn you £70000?
BBC Berkshire, UK -
"I just entered my own blog and got a phone call one day. One judge said I was better than Jeffrey Archer..."
Viral Buzz Takes Blogger from 30 to 32000 Visitors and a Two-Book ...
PR Web (press release), WA -
The Blog Squad are co-authors of "Build a Better Blog: The Ultimate Guide to Boosting Your Business with a Professional Blog"
Hmm... and I thought it was all just a load of guff.
1 comment:
Those are good and interesting links. I think though that last year when Business Week did a survey to check which sites bloggers linked to, almost all of the top 30 were trad media sites (BBC, Guardian, New Yorker). Only a few were themselves blogs (e.g. Boing Boing)
The other professional blogging that you didnt mention is that many companies now use blogs as a way of releasing news to their customers.
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