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I think the question is a bit confused-- it's not relevant to ask What blogs, if any, in the last year have joined the big leagues or made a dent in the dominat
by michael_dorfman 16y ago
I think the question is a bit confused-- it's not relevant to ask What blogs, if any, in the last year have joined the big leagues or made a dent in the domination of the established players? if your goal is "starting a blog, in any niche, that would make a good enough income to make it their full time job."
Trying to compete in an already-competitive niche is going to be, as you point out, near-impossible if you don't have "a fair bit of luck and friends in the right places."
However: there are plenty of niches out there waiting to be cultivated.
If I had your dream, I'd start from the other side. I'd be asking myself what knowledge do I already have, and am interested enough in to spend significant effort deepening, that would be of interest to some small-but-not-absurdly-tiny group of others?
- eliot_sykes 16y agoThanks Michael, agreed, it is a bit confused. With the right niche, angle, and persistence, you could start a blog that you could make a living from, I'm pretty confident of that. The main thing I'm interested in, and I'm sorry this isn't clearer, is that if there are any blogs that have broken into the big leagues recently.
- michael_dorfman 16y agoMy point is that there isn't one "big league"-- there are a zillion niches, most of which are invisible to people on the outside. You grandmother or landlord probably don't know about TechCrunch or Engadget, and certainly wouldn't consider them "the big leagues". If you're really interested in Tech Blogs, though, you should take a look at Technorati's Top 100 (http://technorati.com/blogs/top100 http://technorati.com/blogs/top100), and run whatever analysis seems interesting to you.
- eliot_sykes 16y agoThanks for feedback - removed my fluff from the main post and focused on the main questions