Slate Journalist Who Bashed Blogs is a Blogger

Posted on February 27, 2006

Mark Glaser tells us in a post on his Media Shift blog that Daniel Gross, the author of the recent blog bashing article on Slate, actually has a blog of his own called Daniel Gross, a Moneyblog.

While Gross might scoff at Pajamas Media, the conservative blog network is one of many such blog networks that are banding together to find ways to make money. And if the blog business was really over, why would Gross himself have a blog about business, with advertisements prominently placed?

Gross has ads on his blog but if he believes his own advice he probably doesn't expect to make much money from it. In his Slate article he wrote, "a few people are going to make money-journalist money, not Wall Street money-and the hordes of late joiners will make nothing." Well, maybe he is hoping to be one of the few lucky money makers.

Mark Glaser also comments on the link bait idea behind blog bashing articles in newspapers and magazines.

The irony of ironies is that Slate ends up getting more traffic to its story (thanks to blogs linking to it!), thereby making more money for Slate by knocking blogs as a business.
So the next time you see a journalist hyping blogs or knocking them off their pedestal, consider the less glamorous middle-ground take that blogs are doing just fine - not world-beating and not flailing miserably - but just fine. And I won't be hurt if you decide not to link to my not-so-sensational theory.

Slate doesn't deserve the traffic for the article by Gross but Mark Glaser does deserve traffic for his fine article about blogging.