APPARENTLY there are currently around 57 million blogs on the world wide web, with the number increasing by 100,000 a day.
So I feel grateful – and somewhat amazed – that you are even reading this.
A very small number of these blogs earn their writers thousands of pounds a week through advertising, mainly from Google (see above – and no, I don’t get any money for writing this).
According to a feature in yesterday’s Times, the most successful bloggers spend many hours a day – up to 18 – writing and compiling their entries.
That’s dedication, I suppose, but it also raises two interesting questions:
1) If they spend 18 hours a day on their computers writing blogs, what do they do for a living? They can’t possibly have a job, and as blogging is, 99% of the time, just a hobby, who’s paying for their broadband connection?
2) If they spend 18 hours a day blogging, and presumably have to sleep at some point, that leaves no time at all for the other necessities of life such as eating, bathing, exercising and, erm... watching Dr Who, etc, not to mention all those outside experiences which make for an interesting life and ergo, an interesting blog. What on earth do they write about – blogging?
[Those more astute of you will have noticed that this blog is indeed about blogging, and could easily have been written without recourse to the outside world. Maybe I’ve just answered that last question myself.]
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Barry wrote...
Amazing stuff happens.
Posted by: Barry | September 27, 2007 8:36 AM