{"id":394,"date":"2008-09-14T21:21:05","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T02:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2008\/09\/14\/money-and-blogging\/"},"modified":"2008-09-14T21:21:05","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T02:21:05","slug":"money-and-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/14\/money-and-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Money and Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not earning from my blog, through experiments I&#8217;ve seen ways of earning with simple changes in what I post. I write because I love writing, I blog because i&#8217;ve continually interacted with people who have enrich my life. I blog because I want to share. Money almost always changes everything, and oft times things become all for the the love of money. Like all great gold rush, and with the help of the invisible hand the money well will dry and the endless september of the blogging will finally begone!<br \/>\nfrom Doc Searls blog <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/doc\/2008\/09\/14\/money-and-blogging\/\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What I don\u2019t like is the corrupting influence of the advertising economy itself.<br \/>\nRight now online advertising is a river of gold flowing out of the ground in California, and millions of bloggers \u2014 along with countless new and traditional businesses \u2014 are rushing to grab some. In addition to the other economy-distorting consequences of this rush, it is corrupting blogging\u2019s original nature, which is <em>amateur<\/em> in the best sense or the word. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/amateur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amateur<\/a> is derived from <em>amatorem<\/em>, the Latin word for <em>lover<\/em>.<br \/>\nI\u2019m not saying there\u2019s anything wrong with making money by blogging. I am saying there\u2019s something wrong with blogging <em>mostly<\/em> to make money, or to let advertising determine the purpose of your blog and what you say with it. If your business is the latter, you\u2019re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxjournal.com\/content\/blogging-vs-flogging\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flogging<\/a>, not blogging.<br \/>\nThere is an old and subtle distinction here. Businesses and professions at their best are ways to pursue passions and organize talents \u2014 not just to make money. Of course they can\u2019t thrive unless they make money. But few of us go into business just saying \u201cI can\u2019t wait to return value to my shareholders.\u201d Investors are the main exceptions, but the best of those know that human passions other than greed are at the heart of every good business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not earning from my blog, through experiments I&#8217;ve seen ways of earning with simple changes in what I post. I write because I love writing, I blog because i&#8217;ve continually interacted with people who have enrich my life. I blog because I want to share. Money almost always changes everything, and oft times &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/14\/money-and-blogging\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Money and Blogging&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}