Session #2: From Here to Autonomy
Blogger as entreprenur... fact or fiction? I chose this one by default because the others didn't interest me. And because Heather Armstrong was speaking.
I was turned off by the fact that the moderator writes for an -ist site. I was turned off by the fact that the other panelist, Arieanna Foley, writes for something like 30 different blogs on teen celebrities. I lend more credence to Heather just because she grew her audience organically, and chose to capitalize on the audience she already had. Most other folks come off as money-grubbing, IMO. Apparently paid corporate bloggers are a hot commodity right now. Feels dirty to me.
Heather herself is so entertaining that she was worth it all by herself, even if I have no use for what she had to say. The conversation got off topic for a bit and it became the Dooce show. I think I liked that better.
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I am sorry that choosing blogging as my business turned you off. I am not ashamed of writing about celebrities, and would have loved to be challenged by you in the audience about my choices. I was actually really hoping someone would bring that up.