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‘The odds of making a living by writing a blog are a lot like the odds of a garage band turning out a hit album: It can happen, but you better enjoy the music and hang on to your day job in the meantime. Two years ago, the odds were ...more

The Blog Business Summit will be held between 24-25 January in 2005 in Seattle. It looks like a good gathering to get involved with if the founding board are anything to go by. It might be a bit out of reach of the average blogger at $795 for the two ...more

‘Touting itself now as “the world’s largest blog publisher,” Weblogs Inc. announced it has hired an editorial director and a vice president of sales and marketing. Judith Meskill, a communications consultant who writes a blog about social networking, will oversee the editorial side of the company. “We’re going to have ...more

Doc Searls has an interesting post on making money with blogs in preparation for a session on the topic at the next Blogger Con. He asks a lot of thought provoking questions and then puts forward an interesting case… ‘As you can see, I have a position here. I believe ...more

Nick Denton seems to be on a bit of a publicity tour at the moment as there have been quite a few interviews with him and articles about him online in the past few days. Here is another Questions for… Nick Dention. Here is one of the questions put to ...more

WebProNews has a good little article on Blogging for Dollars that picks up a few income streams available for bloggers wanting to make money from their blogging. ‘Blogging for dollars might sound like the latest game show or some new drinking game, but it’s the latest craze to hit the ...more

Creative Weblogging is offering to pay bloggers $5 for sending in an article to their growing network of blogs. Creative Weblogging is developing a similar blogging network to that of Weblogs Inc with an interesting array of blogs. Obviously they’ve done their sums and worked out that in the long ...more

Online Business Networks Blog has an interesting post on Twelve Business Models for Blog Technologies They divide it into four categories: – Traditional Businesses Leveraging Blogs – including Individual virtual presence, Corporate virtual presence and Using blogs to improve existing processes. – Selling Blog Technology – including Technology sales to ...more

I’m running this competition on my other blogs and thought some of you might like to participate. Do you own a digital camera, printer, scanner or camera phone? Would you like the chance to win a $100 (US) gift from Amazon simply by writing a short review of your experiences ...more