Comments on: There goes the neighborhood:

There goes the neighborhood:

sixdifferentways — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:02:10 -0800

AOL to offer blogging services. Ninety-nine per cent of bloggers won't make money," says Copeland."But when we've got 10 million bloggers a couple years from now, I'm confident that 100,000 of them will be uniquely valuable to advertisers."

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:08:11 -0800

It has to be said: ROTFLMAO.

By: cachilders

cachilders — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:11:11 -0800

what a horrible thing.

By: Tacodog

Tacodog — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:12:36 -0800

Keyword: metafilter.

By: Steve_at_Linnwood

Steve_at_Linnwood — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:14:24 -0800

the beginning of the end....

By: mattpfeff

mattpfeff — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:32:17 -0800

(This article was also published in the Guardian (on Jan. 30) and discussed (briefly) on Blogroots.)

By: RylandDotNet

RylandDotNet — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:57:26 -0800

Me too Posted by hot4chix247@aol.com | Wednesday, March 17, 2004 | Link | Comments

By: billsaysthis

billsaysthis — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:59:49 -0800

I find the instant negativity unfortunate. I welcome new AOL bloggers, however many, and if their pages have ads so be it. Frankly, I was polling friends and family to see if they had any contacts that hep me get a job in this effort. Any Mefites who can/will help?

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:08:36 -0800

Uh - yeah, billsaythis -- I wasn't trying to be negative about the soon-to-be-bloggers...my semi-derision was directed at the AOL staffers who seem to think that blogging = money. More power to AOL if it generates revenue, but I don't think it will be quite the success, dollar-wise, that they anticipate/hope.

By: Orange Goblin

Orange Goblin — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:14:41 -0800

AOL = pure evil. There is no debate to be had.

By: y6y6y6

y6y6y6 — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:15:58 -0800

I'd suggest reading the linked article. Only a few paragraphs have anything to do with the AOL angle. The meat of the article is about weblogs that are making money, and services geared towards that. Old stuff for many here, but they bring it together nicely. I don't think I'd heard of Blogads before. That looks interesting.

By: IshmaelGraves

IshmaelGraves — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:23:01 -0800

There goes the neighbourhood.

By: monkeyman

monkeyman — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:29:20 -0800

Hey Billsaysthis. I'll be negative without fear. 10 million AOL users with blogs? Are you kidding me? If they had anything to say they would be saying it elsewhere already. These blogs will be just like home pages used to be. They will have fun setting it up, add lots of stupid pictures and garish colors, post a few links to popular entertainers, and lose interest in a month or less. Does anyone seriously think otherwise?

By: jeremias

jeremias — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:02:01 -0800

Yes, somewhere there's a little fat girl in Ohio who is going to be the new Instapundit and make a beautiful blog with her father's AOL account. Fer sure.

By: hairyeyeball

hairyeyeball — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:13:41 -0800

Too little, too late for those poor bastards at AOLTW, I'm afraid: they should have jumped on this a long time ago, the way that Globo did down here in Brazil, and Salon back home in gringolandia. I agree, though: the more bloggers the merrier, despite their being chained up in AOL's gated community and bombarded with pop-up advertising. If AOL does it right, they'll offer really a really kick-ass blogging tool, with useful social networking features. But somehow, I doubt they will.

By: shepd

shepd — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:14:03 -0800

These new blogs should make excellent ALOD submissions. Thanks AOL!

By: anildash

anildash — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:36:08 -0800

I heard AOL is going to give web access and email accounts to their users, too. Now email is going to be ruined!

By: owillis

owillis — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:39:48 -0800

The internet is gonna really suck when all those AOLers come online. Oh wait, it got better.

By: Bag Man

Bag Man — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:41:03 -0800

Blogs for masses! Well, I guess it might make all of us a little less stuck up; that's a good thing.

By: shepd

shepd — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:57:04 -0800

owillis, there are those of us who disagree with your suggestion that the internet is better now than before AOL offered TCP/IP... Like me. :-)

By: Opus Dark

Opus Dark — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:09:16 -0800

Jack and Rose, together at last...

By: Jimbob

Jimbob — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:54:04 -0800

I think I'd rather read the fat girl's blog, Jeremias. In any case, I think it just indicates that blogs are no longer the exception in personal publishing online - they are now the rule. While this may decrease the signal to noise ratio, it does reveal that the weblog format has proved itself to be a useful, practical means of publishing - a much better format than Geocities pages put together in Netscape Composer (with lots of rainbow-coloured divider bars), as was the previous standard personal publishing paradigm.

By: Peter H

Peter H — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:56:24 -0800

this space for rent.

By: tommasz

tommasz — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 18:24:33 -0800

So, if blogging is no longer an exclusive realm, what is the Next Big Web Thing?

By: Stan Chin

Stan Chin — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 18:32:07 -0800

I think we're going to cycle back to web pages about our pets and static cameras of Coffee Pots and fish tanks.

By: birdherder

birdherder — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 18:52:35 -0800

what i love is how aol invents these things. anyone with aol can have a blog via a variety of places like blogger/blogspot type places. aol's real problem is to grow its business and userbase [or stop the people from leaving]. not sure if the blog service will do the trick. i predicted in 1995 that AOL would go out of business. it's taking a lot longer than i thought, but dammit it will happen.

By: hama7

hama7 — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:00:40 -0800

Now there'll be even more stuff not to read.

By: lazaruslong

lazaruslong — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:43:49 -0800

10 million AOL users with blogs? Are you kidding me? If they had anything to say they would be saying it elsewhere already. These blogs will be just like home pages used to be. They will have fun setting it up, add lots of stupid pictures and garish colors, post a few links to popular entertainers, and lose interest in a month or less. Does anyone seriously think otherwise? You got it right on, monkey my man.

By: sixdifferentways

sixdifferentways — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 02:25:47 -0800

I noticed he didn't explain exactly how weblogs would be "valuable to advertisers."

By: Peter H

Peter H — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:33:58 -0800

(that annoying AOL voice) "you've got comments!"

By: Peter H

Peter H — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:35:24 -0800

"you've got trackback"