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February 18, 2004
Weblog business
Reading Scoble's report on meeting Russ at Demo, and there's an interesting statement in there on the difficulties of making a business out of weblogging: One knock against weblogging and potential businesses that are being built around weblogs is "they are technically easy to reproduce."
I assume he's not talking about weblog-software but weblog-writing, because I certainly think there is a business to be made by developing innovative weblog-software. I'm sure SixApart or WaveMarket think that too.
But making a business out of weblog-writing is certainly a different story. Even if you come up with the killer subject about which to write - it is certainly easy for someone to just put up another weblog that copies yours. And if they have more of a name or get more link-love - then you loose.
Posted by Matthew at February 18, 2004 08:24 AM