We invented Professional Blogging ;)
We created a new category of work back in 2003 called blogging. Folks didn’t think that would work out.
from Jason Calacanis.
I enjoy reading this guys blog and he has a lot of good ideas and shares great stuff. It is unreal how much he thinks of himself at times. To say that “we created a new category of work in 2003 called blogging” is just plain inaccurate.
We were working/blogging well before 2003 as were lotsa of others. It is not unusual to see such a lack of humility from a yank entrepreneur of course. Maybe I should start blabbing and making stuff up. Folks just might believe it.
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“I think…” (your comment above) vs. “We created…”. (your blog post)
Maybe you did. There are a lot of people doing a lot of things that we don’t know about. It is possible that you are the 1st to build a large network of bloggers like that. Of course, when you started in 2003 - you didn’t have 300 bloggers - it took a while to ramp up while others we doing the same.
You are blog comment hunter jason. Your comments are everywhere on the info superhighway. Well done and thanks for clarifying.
United StatesI think we had 100 in a couple of months… so, I would say we have a good case for claiming that we started the professional blogging trend.
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I think Weblogs, Inc. was the first company to pay a large group of people to blog. Gawker had two blogs when we started and I think three bloggers. We had 300 bloggers getting paid well over $100,000 a month, and we really made it a career for folks so they could move from part-time, to full-time, and on to a producer.
I don’t of anyone who really made it into a profession before us with the exception of Nick Denton.
best jason