In keeping with the monetization of personal content thread below, this has been going around the interweb. It's based on the AOL-Weblogs, Inc. deal, and wow! it seems I'm leaving a lot of money on the table:

It's not realizable, but purely an imaginative exercise. Weblogs, Inc., unlike most of the rest of us blogging away in the trenches and kitchens of the culture of generosity, was able to make a deal because they were a for-profit , with paid -- but replaceable -- bloggers. The blogs and not the bloggers were the unit sold. Kottke.org, who has been experimenting with a sole proprietorship for-profit blog, is apparently worth $2,864,475.96 by the same accounting. If I had a bigger blog, such as BoingBoing, and viewed women as objects first and people second, I could start showing tits on the sidebar to move towards my conjectural $9,386,606.58 valuation.

Building a media empire with blogs is a nice dream, and this little widget may lead to an efflorescence of Gawker Medias and Weblogs, Incs.

LINK | 11:59 AM | TB

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