Comments on: State of the Blogosphere http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/04/17/state-of-the-blogosphere/ Jeff Nolan's take on investment, innovation, entrepreneurship and the technology industry Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:44:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Venture Chronicles http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/04/17/state-of-the-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-1260 Venture Chronicles Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:29:39 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/?p=328#comment-1260 [...] WSJ ran an article yesterday about making money from blogging. There was a healthy dose of skepticism about the entire notion, but Calacanis made a quote that pretty much nailed it: However, you are correct that the majority of folks are not going to make a living from blogs, but that’s because they choose not to try, not because they couldn’t. If folks focus in on a niche and own it there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging.This gets to the quality dynamic that I am interested in seeing more research on, and alluded to in my comments about Dave’s state of the blogosphere report recently. The great majority of blogs are simply copy-and-paste pages or blogs posted to erratically and/or with little insight or originality. I want to find the ones that are attempting to “own” a space. [...] [...] WSJ ran an article yesterday about making money from blogging. There was a healthy dose of skepticism about the entire notion, but Calacanis made a quote that pretty much nailed it: However, you are correct that the majority of folks are not going to make a living from blogs, but that’s because they choose not to try, not because they couldn’t. If folks focus in on a niche and own it there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging.This gets to the quality dynamic that I am interested in seeing more research on, and alluded to in my comments about Dave’s state of the blogosphere report recently. The great majority of blogs are simply copy-and-paste pages or blogs posted to erratically and/or with little insight or originality. I want to find the ones that are attempting to “own” a space. [...]

]]> By: Jeff http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/04/17/state-of-the-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-1155 Jeff Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:50:14 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/?p=328#comment-1155 Thanks for commenting Dave, I was hoping you would chime in. Any sense for what the growth is for event-oriented blogging? Thanks for putting these stats together every quarter, while we are maturing and asking new questions, the fact still remains that there is precious little data about the macro-blogosphere outside of what you are doing. Thanks for commenting Dave, I was hoping you would chime in.

Any sense for what the growth is for event-oriented blogging?

Thanks for putting these stats together every quarter, while we are maturing and asking new questions, the fact still remains that there is precious little data about the macro-blogosphere outside of what you are doing.

]]> By: David Sifry http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/04/17/state-of-the-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-1152 David Sifry Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:34:40 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/?p=328#comment-1152 Well, quite a bit of that 45% is tire kicking - people who go around and try out a few different blog hosting services before deciding on one that they like the most. The rest are people who stop blogging on that blog for one reason or another, including lack of interest, or sometimes the blog is an event-oriented blog, like a blog for a conference, where there is no new news. Dave Well, quite a bit of that 45% is tire kicking – people who go around and try out a few different blog hosting services before deciding on one that they like the most. The rest are people who stop blogging on that blog for one reason or another, including lack of interest, or sometimes the blog is an event-oriented blog, like a blog for a conference, where there is no new news.

Dave

]]> By: marianne richmond http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/04/17/state-of-the-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-1151 marianne richmond Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:44:41 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/?p=328#comment-1151 I agree with your final analysis...the meaning of the numbers. He does say that 55% of blogs created are being posted to after 3 months but does not address the 45% in his cumulative numbers. I agree with your final analysis…the meaning of the numbers. He does say that 55% of blogs created are being posted to after 3 months but does not address the 45% in his cumulative numbers.

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