{"id":1534,"date":"2007-07-08T23:26:17","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T03:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/07\/08\/blogging-is-easy-just-blog-all-day-every-day\/"},"modified":"2007-07-08T23:26:17","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T03:26:17","slug":"blogging-is-easy-just-blog-all-day-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/07\/08\/blogging-is-easy-just-blog-all-day-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging is easy \u2014 just blog all day every day"},"content":{"rendered":"

snipshot_e41c2p5kvbdh.jpgMichael Parsons of CNET.co.uk has a piece in the Times Online — jumping off from the recent Wired profile of Mike Arrington and TechCrunch — that makes an excellent point. If you want to succeed at blogging about anything, you have to work at it<\/a>. As Parsons says:<\/p>\n

“Like all people who rise to the top of their profession, it demonstrates a simple truth: good bloggers work like dogs. You can’t expect readers to show up unless you show up. And the internet never closes.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And in order to work that hard, in many cases for very little return (at least in the beginning), you have to love it. And if there is a competitive threat for traditional media, that is it in a nutshell. Parsons says:<\/p>\n

“If you’re a journalist reading this and thinking, ah, time for a nice lunch and then perhaps this is the day to knock off early, take a moment to think of the bloggers out there who want to eat that lunch.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well said. Mike has his take here<\/a>, and there’s another good example of hard work in the blogosphere paying off in this piece<\/a> about Richard MacManus of Read\/Write Web, who is a class act.<\/p>\n

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Michael Parsons of CNET.co.uk has a piece in the Times Online — jumping off from the recent Wired profile of Mike Arrington and TechCrunch — that makes an excellent point. If you want to succeed at blogging about anything, you have to work at it. As Parsons says: “Like all people who rise to the … <\/p>\n

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