Causally Connectible
In yesterday's WSJ, there was a section about business trends for the next year. It listed stocks to watch, technologies to invest in, etc. It also said that blogs would start to become profitable. Blogs. Profitable.
The piece mentioned Andrew "P-Town" Sullivan and how he raised $80k last year. It also referenced last year's winner of Fraters' Most Pretentious Name contest Joshua Micah Marshall--or as NPR listeners like refer to him "Josh Marshall"--and how he raised five grand in a few days and actually had to ask people to STOP contributing.
I was reminded of Lileks' fund raising last year when his wife was laid off and two of Jasperwood's solariums were in danger of closing to save on heating oil. Luckily, his readers came through and saved the family the shame of falling from the list of the country's top 1% of earners and thus kept all 43 rooms of Jasperwood warm and cozy.
So how will regular working-class bloggers like the motley crew here at Fraters profit from this trend? Well, we probably won't. Any Tip Jar money is going to orphans in Chihuahua and the idea of a company wanting it's products associated with the heavy-drinking, rodent-worshipping likes of the Atomizer is patently absurd.
So sorry, WSJ, this is one trend that won't be coming to pass any time soon here at Fraterslibertas.
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