Can you make any money doing this?
In his article Outrage Kabuki, Julian Sanchez discusses some of the larger, mostly unseen implications resulting from blogger outrage. Of real interest though was some of the figures he presented near the end of the article:
Kos won at least one new sponsor as a show of solidarity, Jeff Seeman, but it seems likely that, on net, his short, angry post will be a costly one. The big-name blogs are less and less an amateur affair: In his first pledge drive, Andrew Sullivan raised some $80,000 in donations, and with the advent of BlogAds, even less heavily trafficked sites than Sullivan’s can earn a tidy monthly income in the thousands of dollars. For ideological bloggers, there’s also the cost to one’s allies to consider. Liberal blogger Atrios has raised over $27,000 for the Democratic National Committee and more than $126,152 for the Kerry campaign, including $20,771.28 raised in a single “John Kerry Thursday.” At last count, Kos had dropped some $60,000 into the DNC’s collection plate and more than $48,000 in Kerry’s.
I don’t know about any one else, but that is some pretty impressive fund raising, for an internet blogger. I wonder how all that on-line fund-raising works, anyway? And I dont mean from a technology standpoint either. I mean more along the lines of FEC guidelines.