Alright we all suck as niche small bloggers

No Advertising for you! The “Advertising Nazi” Louis Gray (the new hot spot bright kid on the blog) that has everyone all abuzz with how cool, how perceptive he is has gone off on a wild tangent thinking that small blogs just don’t need to be making money off of advertising.

On the other hand, maybe he really does have a good point, because he also hits on something that really does need to be addressed, the plain vanilla follow the herd mentality that many bloggers who only read techmeme have decided will make us a couple of bucks.

Louis is getting it, we wrote something similar back in March about how many Web 2.0 sites are getting as dull as ditch water, please god something original and new. Too many folks chasing too many headlines. The problem is not just with Web 2.0 bloggers, but Web 2.0 applications as well, too many folks chasing too few Facebook/Bebo/Myspace folks in the longer run that end up hurting the company rather than really helping it out.

The standard bit about get rich quick and the rest of it, agreed, it’s all a lark, and as people offer properties to run ads on, then the market becomes more dilute. This will only help the bigger blogs, A-C list bloggers and not help the little folks out. Frankly we use advertising to pay hosting costs, it has done that admirably, not up to the toy level yet, but maybe we will get there.

Blogging is fun, and people have the right to do what they want to do with their own web sites, regardless of what “No Advertising for You!” people want to think.

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