Comments on: Are 2 Million People in America Professional Bloggers?

By: The Best

The Best — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:22:18 +0000

I believe that there may be more bloggers than lawyers and I am not sure if this is a good thing. We may find some apt comparisons between the two. And one of them being that most bloggers who say they make a living from blogging are doing the same things many lawyers do all the time–LYING!

By: Foreigner1

Foreigner1 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:57:18 +0000

Hey, that’s about the same amount as the number of people that are imprisoned in the US- I know who pays these bloggers!

By: Gail Pink

Gail Pink — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:44:38 +0000

2 Million Bloggers, yes. Two million bloggers making a living at this? Absolutely no way.

By: Chandrielle

Chandrielle — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:44:02 +0000

I’ve been blogging for years but I’m apparently a fool for giving it away for free. brb, putting a Paypal button on my LJ.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:56:00 +0000

2 million? I don’t believe it. Even the people who pay me have other jobs.

By: GQ

GQ — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:01:11 +0000

What? This can’t be right. How are they making money from blogging?

By: Foreigner1

Foreigner1 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:17:22 +0000

Perhaps it says something very ..what’s the word… wry…? about US-society- If people were hunted out of your overpayed-overmortgaged house and now they live in small tents somewhere on backlots, perhaps then now they can live off the payments of their blogging activities. Here outside the US we understand that by now about that same amount of people as mentioned live in tents…

The positive side of Crisistimes….?

By: David Govett

David Govett — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:50:07 +0000

Perhaps millions are paid not to write.

By: DaveL

DaveL — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:46:10 +0000

It’s always weird to see web stats like this. 1.999 million must start a blog account and never use it otherwise there’d be more than the handful of sites that most people frequent… and most of the “good” sites hork half their content from each other.

By: febbe

febbe — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:38:51 +0000

Stop hyping what you call the Neatorama Civil War. Neatorama was fun to read on a regular basis.

By: thesledgehammer

thesledgehammer — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:34:24 +0000

I’d be joining them if I was actually making any money Blogging. I’ve got a site with a small but steady and growing base of readers (roughly 150-200 hits per day,) but haven’t ever really bothered trying to monetize it yet or really put enough effort into it to make it an income source. Eventually I’ll get around to that, but for now I’m just happy to continue doing it as a hobby. I suspect that a good portion of the purported 2 million number is probably in splogs and other less than completely ethical methods.

By: Kalel

Kalel — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:08:14 +0000

Pity not all of them are of Neatorama’s calibre. Most of them are more ‘blah’ than blog.