January 10, 2002
From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:Boo Hoo, poor Me.
Natalie Solent remarks at length on the economics of on-line content, blogging very much included:
I would point out here that there is recompense, in the pleasure one gets from blogging. The reason I would like to see some sort of frangible payment system is that, without it, direct publishing is more skewed than it has to be towards those with significant spare time or money. An awful lot of great student bloggers are going to - horrors! - graduate one day, and get jobs, and that's the last we'll see of them. Housewife bloggers like me are also at risk of this terrible fate. On other hand (I think I'm using up hands too fast, this is at least my fourth) some bloggers might graduate to the mainstream media. I sort of want to do this myself. But.. but.. what I really want to do is BLOG TILL I DROP BABY! Yeee-HAH!
I can relate to that last statement. You will notice no palm outstretched on this page. You would have to scour the archives of my old site to find my wishlist. I have a job. So it is all about the "love of the game", as Glenn said in his column the other day.
And sometimes I can't finish that post on productivity I was working on. I can't keep up the pace because I work and I have a cold. Id by dose. Yeee-HAH-choo.
Posted by Mindles H. Dreck at January 10, 2002 10:24 PM | Technorati inbound links