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http://austinbay.net/blog/?p=50 Austin Bay Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:21:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://austinbay.net/blog/?p=50#comment-269 Teresa Wed, 02 Feb 2005 19:19:45 +0000 /?p=50#comment-269 There is a difference between Andrew Sullivan and just about all other bloggers hitting the keyboards. A couple of years ago he actively turned his blog into a business tool. He started having "pledge drives" to support himself. His goal at the time was to be able to earn enough from the pledges so he could blog full time. In other words, he made the blog his day-job. (he even differs from Wonkette and some other bloggers who have corporations behind them) Now it seems, as Andrew has grown tired of blogging and is going on hiatus, everyone has forgotten that he had made the blog his job. They still think of it as something he did "on the side". The fact that his blog content was freely available doesn't change this. In actuality, what he is doing is quitting one job and moving on to another because he can't find the time to work 2 jobs at once. There is no problem with this, people change jobs all the time. The problem is when people try to equate Andrew Sullivan and his blogging with other serious bloggers who do their blogging "on the side". Eugene Volokh, Glenn Reynolds, Tim Blair to name some of the top names, have never considered their blogs to be their primary jobs. Even Glenn only blogs about what interests him (much to the dismay of those who simply refuse to understand how blogs work). So, I think Virginia's piece is slightly off the mark because she doesn't seem to know the entire story behind Sullivan's blogging history. (or has possibly forgotten that bit of it) There is a difference between Andrew Sullivan and just about all other bloggers hitting the keyboards. A couple of years ago he actively turned his blog into a business tool. He started having “pledge drives” to support himself. His goal at the time was to be able to earn enough from the pledges so he could blog full time. In other words, he made the blog his day-job. (he even differs from Wonkette and some other bloggers who have corporations behind them) Now it seems, as Andrew has grown tired of blogging and is going on hiatus, everyone has forgotten that he had made the blog his job. They still think of it as something he did “on the side”. The fact that his blog content was freely available doesn’t change this. In actuality, what he is doing is quitting one job and moving on to another because he can’t find the time to work 2 jobs at once. There is no problem with this, people change jobs all the time. The problem is when people try to equate Andrew Sullivan and his blogging with other serious bloggers who do their blogging “on the side”. Eugene Volokh, Glenn Reynolds, Tim Blair to name some of the top names, have never considered their blogs to be their primary jobs. Even Glenn only blogs about what interests him (much to the dismay of those who simply refuse to understand how blogs work). So, I think Virginia’s piece is slightly off the mark because she doesn’t seem to know the entire story behind Sullivan’s blogging history. (or has possibly forgotten that bit of it)

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