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Sep 2

“If blogs are a loss leader for becoming a thought leader, paid speaker, startup advisor, etc. - then spending time and money promoting them make sense.”

Giant Robot Lasers (Ivan Kirigin)

If blogging is a personal branding tool, the first part of the above quote goes some way to answering “why do you blog?” for some people.

The rest of Ivan’s post has some interesting stuff about Facebook ads.

Aug 24

Can anyone recommend any good blogs about museums/galleries?

They don’t necessarily have to be blogs belonging to museums or galleries (in fact, impartiality might be a good thing).

Some very interesting ones I’ve been enjoying a look at today are Museum 2.0 and Museum Marketing.

Aug 21

marco:

[…]
I now have a decently successful blog with a non-zero audience of mostly cool people that earns a small profit with tasteful ads that don’t rely on distracting people. My posts sometimes end up on aggregators even though I never try to promote them. And this all takes far less time and hassle than it used to.

Some of this is the technology: since I started writing online, web publishing has become much easier, and the quality of tools and hosting available for free has skyrocketed. But I can’t help but blame most of the turnaround on my change of priorities: I started writing for myself and for the sake of it, and I stopped trying to be successful or be my own boss or make money with AdSense. And it worked.

[…]

I really like Marco’s writing - he’s an interesting and intelligent guy. On a couple of occasions has been kind enough to correspond with me when I’ve had questions about something he’s written.

But the statistician/economist/pedant in me wants ask, “is Marco confusing correlation with causation?”. Basically - Tumblr’s fortunes have been greatly on the up recently, and deservedly so. So is the popularity of Marco’s blog truly due to him “writing for himself”, or the increased popularity of a community that he’s a figurehead/creator of?

Of course, there’s probably an element of both, and “writing for yourself” can’t be a bad thing. I’m just not sure whether “problogger” strategies should be completely written off, as annoying as they may be.

Either way, congrats Marco on the success of your blog, and keep making me click that “like” button :-)