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  <title>Comments for Blogging for Dollars</title>
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    <title>Blogging for Dollars</title>
    <summary><![CDATA[Meg makes the arugment in Blogging for Dollars that the weblog world needs professionally paid webloggers in order to advance past the labor-of-love ghetto: &quot;The...]]></summary>
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      <![CDATA[<p>Meg makes the arugment in <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/08/12/megnut.html">Blogging for Dollars</a> that the weblog world needs professionally paid webloggers in order to advance past the labor-of-love ghetto: &quot;The idea here is to find an enthusiast, empower them, and fund them.&quot;</p>
<p>She's absolutely right, of course, but the biggest obstacle to this progress is going to be the fact that effective blogging in an enterprise or commercial environment requires a breadth of access and network of contacts that would make the weblogger an effective ombudsman for an organization. Media companies have enough trouble accepting the value and importance of such a position, other industries will face even more inertia and reluctance in their efforts, especially if the company is publicly traded.</p>]]>
      
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