Steve Baker says he’d blog for free. In fact, he does. That doesn’t make Guilds and agents happy, but it is a reality of this new world: We do it for the sake of it.
3 responses to “We’d do it for free”
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No we don’t; we do it for currencies other than cash – attention, credibility, knowledge, stress relief…take your pick.
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Blog and/or job
According to Technorati, there are 31 million blogs. According to a Gallup poll, 66% of internet users never read blogs. And now, according to a feature in Newsday: “Every so-called professional blogger I know wants to work for print.”…
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Shalom Jeff,
Yes. We love doing it. But we don’t do it so that someone else can make a buck.
Last time I checked, demanding someone do work without pay was called slavery and has been illegal in this country for nearly 150 years.
B’shalom,
Jeff Hess
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Jackie has it exactly right.
What’s more, the more prominent bloggers have been able to turn all that attention, credibility, and knowledge into regular cash. Before blogging Josh Marshall was a nobody at TAP, Andrew Sullivan was an unemployed writer, and Glenn Reynolds was one of those names that have 50 matches in any city phonebook.
