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Thread ID: 109157 2010-04-26 11:54:00 Do you visit Blogs - are they still popular ? Digby (677) PC World Chat
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880192 2010-04-26 21:40:00 I read 5-6 blogs per day. Ice Road Trucker (15659)
880193 2010-04-26 22:17:00 Only one cause he's a friend. In general - nah - it's like someones boring diary...... pctek (84)
880194 2010-04-26 23:33:00 Mainly just the tech ones mentioned above, plus Boing Boing, Geekzone and Slashdot. Favourite is Engadget - new toys!!!! johcar (6283)
880195 2010-04-26 23:48:00 Only if there is something of value in them. Obviously no one reads someone's blog who talks about what they did in their day.
I follow a handful. The best way to keep up a blog readership is to have regular (at least a couple of times a week) useful posts
utopian201 (6245)
880196 2010-04-26 23:50:00 I read Rosners blog in Haaretz everday thats about all. prefect (6291)
880197 2010-04-27 00:11:00 I don't really read them, I treat them like any webpages via a google search. But I don't stick to them.

With people I personally know, it's like a diary. But overtime they gave up, it's been inactive over an year.
Nomad (952)
880198 2010-04-27 00:47:00 Aardvark (http://aardvark.co.nz/) has been going a little over 15 years. I still like it. R2x1 (4628)
880199 2010-04-27 00:57:00 Apart from some already mentioned
I visit these regularly.
(not sure if they are all technically 'blogs')
OSNews.com
Softpedia news
Practical Technology
LinuxDevices.com
tuxmachines.org
Distrowatch
Ars Technica
Heise online
istartedsomething
KarameaDave (15222)
880200 2010-04-27 05:28:00 Aardvark (http://aardvark.co.nz/) has been going a little over 15 years. I still like it.

Bruce was probably NZs first blogger, and probably the only one I read. Engadet isn't really a blog these days, it is now owned by a big multinational, but it is interesting to see some of the stuff they have on it. If you have a blog, 99.9% of bloggers don't really make any money from it. Bloggers who do try to make money from it, will try to post stories that the mass market will search for, such as the iphone 4 g. If you manage to get hold of a prototype, you will get huge numbers to your blog.
robbyp (2751)
880201 2010-04-28 04:38:00 If you have a blog, 99.9% of bloggers don't really make any money from it. Bloggers who do try to make money from it,

Yes Its like everything on the internet, those who get in first probably do well, then everyone else gets the buzz and tried to cash in. But they can't all make money.

There is a whole industry pushing ads and affiliates to blog sites. (they will have to fail after they have sucked in many millions to start a blog.)
Digby (677)
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