The Commercialization of Blogging - The Newport Analogy
First there was the web site. Then there was web log. Then there was the blog. Blogging soon became a powerful force online, and bloggers found themselves receiving large quantities of traffic. The very nature of a blog, allowing unfettered online communication between milliions of people in the blogosphere, in concert with various other web applications, makes blogging a sure-fire traffic producer.     Â
Blogging for profit, or using a blog to enhance an online business, became the “thing to do”. It was inevitable that this kind of explotation of the blogosphere would come to pass.
Immediately after blogging became commercialized, there was a big line drawn in the sand. Many bloggers from the old school of web-logging were disgusted to see their blogospheres being used for making money. They saw this as the ultimate in selling out, and many of the blogging purists still rage against blogging for money. Read more »
