Arieanna found this post by Doug Fisher this morning while she, Ianiv and I were eating breakfast--Common Sense Journalism- Hired-gun bloggers. She fired off a comment post-haste--12-09 PM--I followed this evening--10-53 PM. Doug's post was a little tongue-in-cheek bit expanding on some of the BloggingHelp content and Will's post from over the weekend. 
It seemed
that Doug was making a jab at pro bloggers, but I don't think so.
I think he is just making sure everybody's hyp-o-meters and
scam-o-meters are on and functional. Blogging, as a business
model, is becoming very similar to the web design and development
model. There are going to be lots of people who are going to spin
and jargon their way into business. I was talking to a friend at
the Market on Saturday
who had paid a few hundred dollars to a "kid in Victoria" who doesn't
seem to be doing diddly. Me, I think a nice simple blog could do
a lot for him. When we chat I'll go through the pros and cons and
let him decide.
This, BTW, is called being a professional. This
is the attribute that is going to separate the wheat from the chaff,
but thanks Doug for poking a bit to make sure we are all paying
attention.
[Also published on View from the Isle]
Tris Hussey
is a professional blogger, the Chief Blogging Officer for Qumana
Software, and Managing Director of Qumana Services. He can be
reached at tris AT qumana DOT com or tris AT trishussey DOT com.
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