3 thoughts on “Bill’s New York”

  1. I don’t begrudge anyone making a living off of their blog – it’s a privilege to choose whether or not to do so. I have, however, stopped reading some blogs because although they were amazing in the past, the sponsored posts and the non-sponsorted posts aimed at find.more.readers. just start to feel a bit staged and false.
    It’s an art to do it well and it’s a balance too – some indefinable line (at least for me) where too many sponsored posts and I am turned off.
    And the “a little too crafted to generate page views” – I can’t suspend my disbelief that blogger x who is so business savvy to run a hugely successful blog ALSO has a life full of drama after drama. Speaking in general terms here – I stop reading those blogs pretty quickly.

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  2. There’s a major personal finance blogger who used to have a pretty good blog up until he sold it, went on autopilot with his posting and set up a vicious unattended filter (every comment longer than a line or two goes into moderation and then never emerges). His commenters used to be the best part of the blog, but he’s managed to embitter just about all of them (I have never seen a comment box go 100% troll before–they’re really ticked off). The last I saw, the surviving commenters had just discovered that the best way to get comments through is to stick the word “coupon” in.

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  3. Slight off-topic, but we just watched this movie two weeks ago. It is really charming and fascinating. Surprisingly so, since I am not exactly a fashionista. But I am a sucker for people who love what they do and who retain some childlike joy into old age.

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