Category Archives: blogonomics

Sam Gustin has an interesting profile of Glam Media’s Samir Arora today, saying that he’s in a battle with iVillage to become "the Web’s most popular site for women". But really Glam Media behaves in many ways much less like … Continue reading →

Time for a breather from the credit crunch, I think. Instead, let’s head over to Bill Rempel’s No DooDahs blog, where he rails against Seeking Alpha’s business model, and says that Seeking Alpha gets 66 times as much value from … Continue reading →

Remember the Tim Geithner speech last week? The wires covered it, dutifully enough, but it didn’t get much traction beyond that, outside the wonkier end of the econoblogosphere. What makes me very happy, however, is that the wonkier end of … Continue reading →

Jay Rayner has a profile of Nick Denton in the UK Observer, in which we find some interesting numbers: In January, New York-based Gawker Media racked up nearly a quarter of a billion page views… The monthly salary is an … Continue reading →

Breakingviews, one of the least web-savvy websites in the world, ran a column by Jeff Segal on Monday about blog valuations. And given that breakingviews tries to disable copying and for all intents and purposes bans hyperlinks, it’s probably not … Continue reading →

Did you follow my link to Francisco Torralba’s blog entry on mortgage securitization in Spain? If you did, and if you read his entry all the way to the end, you might have seen a little button there: Clicking that … Continue reading →

On Friday, David Harper asked me to introspect a little: he was impressed at how many blog entries I produced last week, and wondered how that happened. I try to answer any genuine questions which are asked of me, so … Continue reading →

At the beginning of the year, Gawker Media moved to a new pay scheme where writers were paid based on their pageviews. According to the memo, the new scheme was pretty simple: While your base monthly pay remains the same, … Continue reading →

I managed to grab a few minutes at the Money:Tech conference to talk to Mike Masnick about his company, Techdirt, and specifically the Techdirt Insight Community. What he said intrigued and excited me: it seemed like a fantastic way for … Continue reading →

On Saturday, Tyler Cowen posted a 62-word blog entry, of which 29 words constituted a quote from Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational. It was a throwaway "fact of the day" post, comparing the cost of robberies in the United States ($525 … Continue reading →

Call it the monetization of opacity. One of the biggest buzz topics of the Money:Tech conference is dark pools: the way that stock trades are migrating away from open and transparent public exchanges, and into black boxes which don’t make … Continue reading →

Eddy Elfenbein has a very good idea, which fits quite neatly into my worries about everybody but the bloggers themselves making money from finance blogs. The presenters at the Money:Tech conference are unanimous that there’s alpha to be found in … Continue reading →

One of the main themes of the Money:Tech conference is the way in which companies and investors can search and aggregate and mine blog information in order to help generate the elusive alpha. There was even a slide in John … Continue reading →

Now that Gawker Media’s new pay scheme has been made public, Brian Lam of Gizmodo (a Gawker Media property) explains what the downside is, in practice, of paying for traffic. Gizmodo was one of the four blogs where the new … Continue reading →

Gawker Media has moved to a pay-for-traffic business model, and Valleywag’s Paul Boutin has the full memo. Essentially, Gawker Media writers will now be paid in any given month the greater of two numbers: either their base pay, or the … Continue reading →

Is James Ledbetter really incapable of using his remarkable schnozz to sniff through a blog entry and find out what SWF might stand for? The words “sovereign wealth funds” are in there, if you look hard enough. But even if … Continue reading →

Professional journalists tend to think of their article as the end of a process of reporting, while bloggers tend to think of their entries as the beginning of a process of commenting.
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A surprising number of people seem to care that there’s a bunch of turnover going on at Gawker: the latest departures have made both the Observer and the NYT today. That very fact proves Gawker’s continuing media-goldfish-bowl relevance: it’s unthinkable … Continue reading →

Scott Adams, the multimillionaire creator of the Dilbert comic strip, doesn’t like doing anything which doesn’t make him money. This conflicted with his blogging, the income from which was very small. Yes, we’ve been here before. But this time it’s … Continue reading →

Some of the blogs linking to Andrew Clavell since I wrote about his Citigroup analysis yesterday afternoon: Paul Kedrosky, FT Alphaville, Fintag, peHUB, DealBreaker, Tim Price. There’s even a chap in India. The main effect of all this attention seems … Continue reading →

The experiment is over, and I have paid five of my readers for reading this blog; my total outlay came to $5.12. The average (mean) bid was $380,952,457.64. The lowest bid was one Zimbabwean cent; the highest was $8 billion. … Continue reading →

You won’t be surprised to hear that I think it pays for companies to encourage their employees to blog, and to be as open as possible. But don’t take my word for it. Instead, take the word of Rohit Aggarwal, … Continue reading →

Since I offered to start paying my readers, the emails (to blogonomics@gmail.com) have not exactly been flooding in. This is good for those who asked for high amounts, since I’ve promised to pay the senders of the five lowest bids … Continue reading →