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America's Newest Profession: Bloggers for Hire

russell 18y ago
He says that there are 20 million bloggers, and 450K are making a living at it, more than there are programmers almost as many as are lawyers. Any of you out there doing better as bloggers than programmers? This HN gig isn't making me rich.
- PStamatiou 18y ago
  my blog pays my rent and food while i work full-time on my startup. so it all works out. :-)
  - josefresco 18y ago
    Paul I have to say, and I mean this as a compliment ... you're the exception to the rule when it comes to blogging. Although I do agree with the overall notion that it's easy to make some money with your blog/personal site.
    - PStamatiou 18y ago
      well put jose. and it took me 3 years to even get near the point where the blog could pay for more than a cup of coffee each day.
- wallflower 18y ago
  I believe he misinterpreted the statistics. I just hope this doesn't make it into the print edition of WSJ. The source doesn't support extrapolating 450K bloggers who are "making a living" (positive revenue is possible though). The source study does not cover bloggers who generate leads that make them a living, however. The table shown attributes "Bureau of Labor Statistics" for the job numbers but there is no "blogging" classification. 0.02 * 20 million approx 450K but the survey data was against a smaller pool of blogs (those that had registered with Technorati). So more realistically, 0.02 * 1.2 million = 24,000 (with a small number of top blogs attracting the bulk of the advertising revenue) "we conducted a survey from a random sample from more than 1.2 million bloggers who have registered with Technorati." Median annual revenue: $120 - $300 http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/blogging-for-profit/ http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/blog...
josefresco 18y ago
Blogging is a job like any other, what you actually do differs from coding but the end result can be a decent living either way. And a lot of hard work, creativity, luck etc.
brc 18y ago
"While many bloggers probably support unionization in general, they have no union of their own." What a preposterous statement to make. "I write a blog, ergo I'm a unionist." Here's my statement to match: "While not all journalists use sweeping generalizations, most prefer it to any actual research"

He says that there are 20 million bloggers, and 450K are making a living at it, more than there are programmers almost as many as are lawyers. Any of you out there doing better as bloggers than programmers? This HN gig isn't making me rich.

PStamatiou 18y ago
my blog pays my rent and food while i work full-time on my startup. so it all works out. :-)
- josefresco 18y ago
  Paul I have to say, and I mean this as a compliment ... you're the exception to the rule when it comes to blogging. Although I do agree with the overall notion that it's easy to make some money with your blog/personal site.
  - PStamatiou 18y ago
    well put jose. and it took me 3 years to even get near the point where the blog could pay for more than a cup of coffee each day.
wallflower 18y ago
I believe he misinterpreted the statistics. I just hope this doesn't make it into the print edition of WSJ. The source doesn't support extrapolating 450K bloggers who are "making a living" (positive revenue is possible though). The source study does not cover bloggers who generate leads that make them a living, however. The table shown attributes "Bureau of Labor Statistics" for the job numbers but there is no "blogging" classification. 0.02 * 20 million approx 450K but the survey data was against a smaller pool of blogs (those that had registered with Technorati). So more realistically, 0.02 * 1.2 million = 24,000 (with a small number of top blogs attracting the bulk of the advertising revenue) "we conducted a survey from a random sample from more than 1.2 million bloggers who have registered with Technorati." Median annual revenue: $120 - $300 http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/blogging-for-profit/ http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/blog...

josefresco 18y ago

Blogging is a job like any other, what you actually do differs from coding but the end result can be a decent living either way. And a lot of hard work, creativity, luck etc.

brc 18y ago

"While many bloggers probably support unionization in general, they have no union of their own." What a preposterous statement to make. "I write a blog, ergo I'm a unionist." Here's my statement to match: "While not all journalists use sweeping generalizations, most prefer it to any actual research"