Category Archives: blogonomics

Tyler Cowen asks: What feature in an RSS reader do you not have but long for? What would cause you to switch from one reader to another? Would you ever consider a reader that forced ads on you, bundled up … Continue reading →

Fans of Paul Jackson’s Housing Wire website might have noticed his latest venture: Housing Wire magazine. Starting up a new trade magazine is an expensive proposition, and Jackson is spending a lot of money on this launch, getting a big … Continue reading →

A lot of media companies love the idea that they can get their employees to start a blog. Unfortunately, they don’t like the idea that working on the blog means they might do less work elsewhere. The result can easily … Continue reading →

Howell Raines reports on Jim Romenesko: Romenesko is Poynter’s highest-paid nonexecutive employee, at more than $170,000 a year… Because Romenesko is an online pioneer with old-fashioned newspaper values, he chose to do it in a nonprofit environment, but money can … Continue reading →

Megan McArdle finds a listing for what has to be one of the most depressing blogging gigs in the world: Dow Jones Newswires is seeking an editor to join its equity markets team and mine publishable scoops and intelligence from … Continue reading →

Stephen Dubner is a journalist (he has written mainly for the NYT) who is now blogging for the NYT. And so it’s interesting to me what he did when given the opportunity to break some news: The other day, I … Continue reading →

FT Alphaville is hiring, and I took the opportunity to ask its fearless leader, Paul Murphy, a few questions about the FT’s flagship blog operation and the way that bloggers are treated at the pink ‘un. Here are his answers: … Continue reading →

Jerry Abejo has revisited the idea of blog aquisitions, and doesn’t really seem to get it. He’s not only way off the mark factually (Gawker Media gets over 200 million pageviews a month, not 30 million), but he also seems … Continue reading →

I’m enjoying this conversation with Dean Rotbart far too much to stop now, even though I suspect it’s of interest only to a handful of my readers. But I’m a blogger! So on I go; you’re more than welcome to … Continue reading →

Dean Rotbart is full of bright ideas. Here’s the latest, in a comment on this blog: Let’s establish a non-profit, volunteer board of people to recommend standards for financial bloggers, dealing with issues such as conflicts-of-interest, disclosure, and accountability. Second, … Continue reading →

I hope that Dean Rotbart isn’t reading Techcrunch, he’d have conniptions after reading this story, put up by Erick Schonfeld yesterday: Here’s the latest Yahoo rumor that we’re chasing: The Yahoo board of directors met earlier today and authorized chairman … Continue reading →

Megan McArdle reckons that econoblogging has become professionalized: All of the high-traffic economics bloggers I read are either professors, in some similarly rewarding profession, or already tied up by a media organization… I’m not sure what this means for the … Continue reading →

The insightful Herb Greenberg is leaving journalism to start up "an independent equity research boutique". And all power to him: as Paul Kedrosky says, "he deserves the broadest possible playing field to display and, yes, benefit financially from his talents". … Continue reading →

Erick Schonfeld reports today that Federated Media, a network which sells ad space on a network of blogs, is raising $50 million at an eye-popping valuation of $200 million. That’s a hell of a lot of money: it’s nine times … Continue reading →

Wonkette has been sold, to its managing editor, Ken Layne. In the memo, Nick Denton explains that Gawker Media just wasn’t very good at selling political ads. "Political advertisers are a strange breed; they don’t come through the same agencies … Continue reading →

The Ultimatum Game, in game theory, has two players. It’s very simple: The first player proposes how to divide a sum of money between themselves, and the second player can either accept or reject this proposal. If the second player … Continue reading →

Liquidity Freeze is, in its own words, A blog following the catastrophic failure in auction rate security markets, concentrating on closed end funds. The author even adds a note saying that anything not associated with closed end funds is "out … Continue reading →

I feel I have to mention Barry Ritholtz’s very public abandonment of Seeking Alpha. After they mistakenly edited a couple of his headlines, he put up an anguished post on his personal blog, asking if he should quit the relationship; … Continue reading →

I’m glad that Jeff Bercovici has fisked the NYT’s silly article on the hazards of blogging, because it means I don’t have to. Instead, I can look past the idiotic central thesis to one of the pieces of supporting evidence: … Continue reading →

Jordan Golson can’t be happy: Nick Denton has cut the amount of money he gets per thousand pageviews to $6.50 from $9.75. That’s a 33% pay cut, on a per-pageview basis. What about on an absolute basis? Well, the pageview … Continue reading →

Jeff Bercovici has already picked up on the mini-tantrum thrown this morning by Valleywag’s Jordan Golson. Valleywag, of course, is part of Gawker Media, which pays its writers on the basis of how many pageviews they get. But that "pageview … Continue reading →