Blogger Ana Marie Coxe, or Wonkette as she is better known via her very popular blog, is leaving the blogging business. See here and here.
Ana is a talented writer and is ably demonstating something I argue all the time: The financial returns to career bloggers remain higher outside the blog-o-sphere. Put differently, most full-time bloggers who aren’t using their blogs to leverage other work are closet philanthropists — and a smaller subset of full-time bloggers who don’t abandon the business for better-paying stuff that blogging has leveraged are irrational altogether.
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its smart for her to leave – she was beginning to become a point of derision. your assessment of her is correct only on a superficial level, she had become a point of mockery in the circles she was travelling in.
GrumpY has a point, but I agree with Paul generally, blogging may be a good springboard but as yet has no business model sufficient for someone on the top rungs. As a voice for someone who has another source of income blogging works great, but by itself it is a dead end.
For me blogging would be a springboard to nowhere which is why I don’t blog but remain an itinerant commenter.
Bloggers gotta eat too
If Paul Kedrosky’s thesis about how well blogging pays (it doesn’t) is correct – and I most definitely think it is – then that explains why so much of the ‘professional media’ doesn’t like bloggers.On that note, thanks to Tom
“A Springboard to Nowhere” sounds like a good title for a book, though it may be hard to find someone willing to pay “mid-six figures” (the value of Ana’s latest book deal) for it.