Interesting article(s).

While it’s true that getting readers is somewhat hard, the guilt lies not to those who do a good job but to us who are still not making a good enough job (say, have you identified your niche group correctly? do you deliver new posts at least in a consistent timely fashion? Do you cater to a local (and then smaller) audience?).

There are many other bloggers that get a bigger audience not because they churn posts like crazy… but because they deliver true quality material (shout out to Veerle Pieters, Chris Coyiers and Roger Johansson).

In this blogosphere we live in quality is what will make your audience come from various sources and ultimately stay.

Blogging might be a business to some, a way of making ends meet for others… But just as traditional press, there are TONS of excellent writers whose material stands above the rest.

Also blogging lines are being well defined. With blog engines like engadget, gizmodo, techcrunch churning up 30 posts a day, it is becoming much harder for the rest without lots of resources to burn. So while blogging technically is free for all, getting a decent readership is becoming harder with each passing days.

Blogging has become a business like traditional press. Similarly I don’t expect the mainstream bloggers to be really sarcastic or write something really bad about a product or services they don’t like, simply because they are dependent on them for advertising revenue or even access to premier events.

Amazing, Richard. You’re a real piece of work.

I wonder what we’ll see next year, unless this has some consequences.

Perhaps someone will set off a stink bomb at MacWorld to ruin “There something in the air” or fill the room with helium.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/notag/tv+b+gone-23694.php

I will never forget, and if I ever see Gizmodo approach me, I’ll tell them to leave my booth, and call security if they don’t.

We often did not have remotes on the floor or even easily accessible. The monitors often had power buttons that were unreachable, and we had no chairs. That video wall would have taken us down for potentially 30 minutes.

People spend hundreds of thousands, if not tens of millions, of dollars to be there. These “blog kids” have every right to be there, but they’re also 100% entitled to reap the rewards that they sow just as if I did what they did.

Is this the “great content” youre talking about Goldman?
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/hairless-intern/gizmodo-intern-tortured-for-the-cause-301359.php

See, boy, the thing is, you owe it all to us, your audience. You are not that good, not that big and show signs of decay… It’s your site and you do as you please (AFAIK from your commentaries), so what then? Keep doing what you do… As an intern maybe some other branch at Gawker will take you when Giz numbers roll down (read it as: when the stupid pranking gets old or starts happening to you).