The blogosphere – 2002 and today
Henry Copeland
Blogads founder Henry Copeland wrote 10 years ago: “I will wager $1000 that on May 25, 2007 there will be more Blogads than NYTimes.com classified ads or that NYTimes.com will be using Blogads.”
Copeland writes today: “Good thing [former New York Times digital czar Martin] Nisenholtz didn’t take me up that bet. NYT’s classified business was still going strong… in 2007.”
He adds: “I’m happy to say that many of those May, 2002 forecasts turned out to be correct. Unfortunately, the blog utopia I dreamed about is today polluted with bad writing, spam, barely disguised flogging and naked opportunism.”
* Blogonomics, ten years on (Blogads.com)
* Copeland in 2002: Making a living from blogging (Blogads.com)
* Is blogging dead? (Solo Practice University)
