Fat Broke - Blogging is Bad for You!

I’ve just been wondering if blogging is bad for you.
It seems the more you blog, the better your blog is in terms of content and graphics, the financially poorer you become.
I know that the better my blog is becoming the poorer I’m becoming!
And I don’t think it’s just me!

Look at Gary Murphy one of the best bloggers,
“We feared the worst, especially given our fiscal situation”

It would make sense, the more you put into a blog the less time you put into other money earning activities unless of course an excellent blog leads to money earning activities.
So is it true that all the best bloggers are stone broke?
Chris Locke has been fiscally complaining, and he’s one of the best bloggers.
Seriously, writing good stuff, proofing it, spellchecking it, adding fun graphics, thinking about it, all takes time. And of course there's reading other people's content so you have something to write about, John Porcaro
I probably spend 80% of my "blogging time" (maybe an hour a day) reading through my blogroll and links, and only a small amount of time writing.

And besides, Blogging Makes You Fat as well!
And guess who should also pick up on David Weinberger's weblog at the same time as me but non other than Gary Murphy! who’s written a beautiful blog about it!!
I rest my case!
And I agree with the Half Way Diet as Well.

Comments

[mrG]

Causality can be a slippery beast -- looking over my own blogging history, it's pretty easy to see the short days arise when there's the most paid work going on, and the most elaborate, styled and typeset tomes occur either in the pit of the pennilessnesses ... or in lieu of work I don't want to do :)

It is curious, though, is how few bloggers have actually generated work from their blog. JOHO is one (asked to join the Dean campaign trail), Accordion Guy is another (asked to head the TuCows blog server), and Winer too of course (although technically his blog is an extension of his work), but in all these cases, they are not being hired for their writing or style, but only because they understand the raw mechanics of the blog engine, because they've gained some technical ability and understanding. They are blog technicians only.

My blog does generate plenty of job prospects, at least a few every week ... but always to readers with often great ideas, but no market cap, paying if they do pay from out of pocket savings, with grand promises of more if only I'll do some magic for them pro-bono. My paying clients, on the other hand and what few there are, almost without exception never read my blog, even those who have blogs of their own, which is sometimes serendipidous considering the rants I can get into.

That those who can afford my services never read blogs (any blogs) is also curious. It leads me to wonder if, perhaps, reading blogs is even less profitable than writing them!