Links for "Blogs to Riches"

If you lost your copy of this article, or if you left it in school, the link is here.

Here are the Study Questions, in cas eyou've misplaced those (although I know that those of you who patronize THS Commedia are not likely to lose things.)

Study Questions for “Blogs to Riches”
(Due: Monday, May 8, 2006. 40 points)

1. Suppose that Gawker has a good day, drawing 120,000 more pages views than they normally do. How much money would they stand to make that day? How did you arrive at this figure? (I’m not kidding – show your work.)
2. What’s the maximum amount of money that David Hauslaib could be making?
3. What is a “meritocracy”? (It’s okay to resort to a dictionary if you have to on this one.)
4. What measure did Clay Shirky come up with to determine the relative importance of blogs?
5. “The A-list is teensy, the B-list is bigger, and the C-list is simply massive.” What term would my brother-in-law, Gary (an Economics professor at SCSU) use to describe this phenomenon?
6. Peter Rojas has become rich – really rich – thanks to his blog, Engadget. But it’s not easy. What’s an average work week like for Rojas?
7. What incident led to Joshua Micah Marshall’s blog (Talking Points Memo) making it big?
8. What formula did Andrew Sullivan (The Daily Dish) use to sustain his blog?
9. Why would you want to buy advertising space on the Busy Mom blog?
10. Blogs are the next frontier in political advertising. Why would one advertiser prefer Daily Kos, while another prefer Talking Points Memo?
11. Boing Boing is currently the number one rated site. How many readers do they have?
12. What is “the record label approach” to blog fame and fortune?
13. What is “the boutique approach” to blog fame and fortune?
14. What’s a good way for a little C-list blog to temporarily gain lots of traffic?
15. How is a blog like a shark? (I know, I know, if it _________, it _______. What does that mean?)
16. How was the Huffington Post “a death knell for the traditional blogger”?
17. What does Elizabeth Spiers think is the ultimate determining factor in whether a blog will survive and prosper?

And here are links to some of the blogs mentioned in the article. Warning: note all of these blogs will be "work safe". Proceed with caution (or, if you're at school, prepare to not proceed at all).

Jossip.com

Gawker

Technorati

Boing Boing

PerezHilton.com

Daily Kos

Instapundit

Engadget

Talking Points Memo

The Daily Dish

Gothamist

Busy Mom

Valleywag

Gizmodo

Blogebrity

Pink Is the New Blog

Ultragrrl

Thighswideshut

The Huffington Post

Mediabistro

Dealbreaker