{"id":417,"date":"2005-09-28T09:53:34","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T13:53:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:46","slug":"can_bloggers_strike_it_rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2005\/09\/28\/can_bloggers_strike_it_rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Bloggers Strike It Rich?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/culture\/0,1284,68934,00.html\">Wired News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When it comes to the profit potential of blogs, Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media, calls himself a skeptic.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a surprisingly pessimistic perspective coming from the Brit who has launched a network of 13 theme blogs &#8212; including Fleshbot (porn), Gawker and Defamer (gossip), Gizmodo (gadgets) and Wonkette (politics). His most popular properties (Defamer, Gizmodo and Gawker) report between 4 million and 6 million visits per month and millions more pageviews, he and his top talent have been featured in articles in the ink-and-pulp press (Wired, The New York Times Magazine) and Denton rarely misses an opportunity to trumpet ads on his sites for blue-chip companies like Absolut, Audi, Sony, Nike, Viacom, Disney and Cond\u00e9 Nast.<br \/>\nSo you can forgive his competitors for not buying into his deflationary spin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Wired News: When it comes to the profit potential of blogs, Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media, calls himself a skeptic. It&#8217;s a surprisingly pessimistic perspective coming from the Brit who has launched a network of 13 theme blogs &#8212; including Fleshbot (porn), Gawker and Defamer (gossip), Gizmodo (gadgets) and Wonkette (politics). His most &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}