Ensight Sale Important to Bloggers

As Wayne points out at Blog Business World,

Hanging an actual dollar value, on what we already knew to be valuable, just handed blogs instant mainstream media credibility...suddenly all of our blogs have some level of cash value.

He's got a good analysis of what the Ensight sale means in terms of business. Make sure you read the whole thing, because whether you're in this hoping some day for a bit of notoreity or income or not, the sale still has important ramifications for all of us.

I do expect to hear a howl of protest from the blog purists, those who insist the air of commerce should never defile any blog, but I figure blogs in general are well on the way toward defining the term, variety. There are still websites that call themselves blogs that don't have an RSS feed, and that's the way their owners like it!

Back in the dim, misty, past, when I was an activist for regulation of cable TV, one of the ways Big Cable dealt with protestors was to offer them a job at an outrageous salary, hoping this would shut them up. So there may well be some of that going on, too, as the issue of blogs vs. Big3 Traditional Media advances.

Comments

[Wayne Hurlbert]

The blogosphere is large enough to accomodate many different types of blogs.

Good examples of blogging tastes, styles, and philosophies, can be found along the entire spectrum. Blogs can range, from the completely free of any commercial aspects at all, to an entirely cash oreinted blog.

As you say, one of the hidden strengths of the blogging community is that unlimited variety of blogs and bloggers.