Comments on: TIME Magazine mentioned my blog. Now what?

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:19:33 +0000

Have you checked out Darren Rowse's Problogger? He blogs as a living and has written about the same issue about blogging as a profession. BTW, Congrads on the Time piece.

When people ask me why I blog, I tell them it is a stepping stone to becoming a better green building and green living consultant. Every day, I am bombarded with different green products through PR agencies and owners that I would not learn about otherwise.

By: Emily DeVoto

Emily DeVoto — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:48:25 +0000

Re. labels – I HAVE found myself saying I'm a journalist now that I've actually started writing for public consumption, but it's not necessarily accurate; it just sounds a little more like a real job than "blogger" – at least this year…

By: melanie gao

melanie gao — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 01:42:17 +0000

Today page 62-63, tomorrow front cover! Go Penelope! :)

By: K

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 17:55:59 +0000

Hey–I thought your question on the GS call today was really cool, especially since I'm semi-fresh out of school.

Hope we can all connect as a group sometime, I though this experience was awesome!

By: Penelope Trunk

Penelope Trunk — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:42:50 +0000

Anton, what an intelligent comment. You're right. You can't just be a blogger. You have saved me from a dinner party snafu. But, just thinking out loud here… people do call themselves just journalists, which is sort of similar to just blogger. But maybe that's why newspapers are dying…

By: Anton Chuvakin

Anton Chuvakin — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:46:33 +0000

I would venture a guess that unless you see it as blogger="journalist 2.0" or blogger=PR person, there is not much sense in being called "a blogger", just as you can't just be "a speaker" – you have to have a passion to speak (or blog) about SOMETHING.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 02:35:39 +0000

When people ask what you do, you could say:

"I write a syndicated column to support my blogging habit."

Congrats on being mentioned in Time.

By: Alexandra Levit

Alexandra Levit — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 01:43:10 +0000

Way to go, Penelope!!!

The September issue of Business 2.0 has an article on people who earn a living blogging. Already, certain prestigious bloggers have the cache of print columnists. At the moment, though, I think you have the best of both worlds!

By: finance girl

finance girl — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 00:38:34 +0000

(Finance Girl, FG, grabs her Time issue that just came. FG looks, yep, there's Miss Penelope's comments, pp.62-63!).

Congrats Miss Penelope!

By: The Zero Boss

The Zero Boss — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:25:50 +0000

Congrats on the mention!

Your syndicator may indeed be right – for now. But it's not exactly like most newspapers are fat on cash at the moment. Their economic model is winding down, and writers are struggling to find new models online. It's not easy. It takes an oogle of traffic to make good money via ads alone. Plus, for programs like AdSense, the subjects that you blog about determine what ads you get, and what dividend they pay to you as a publisher.

I've heard some talk about venture capitalists investing in individual bloggers, to see them through their early days until they hit it big. Not sure if that's actually happening, but it would be a sweet development.