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Sat 9:45am - The Growing Blogosphere Angst (Sarah Lacy)

Sara follows up her SXSW Interview disaster with a Phil Donahue conversation with the Gnomedex crowd.

Sara says: As a blog gets bigger, the community breaks down. Is there a way to build a viable business as a blogger, and does a community scale?

Robert Scoble says he's really tired of dealing with PR people. There aren't providing many good stories. Most don't hang out with the community (only 2 at gnomedex)

Someone else: "Every couple weeks, someone else expresses disenchantment with blogging."

Someone else: "Blog is just an architecture, not the way you use it. We've made a huge mistake by naming blogging activity after a blog architecture. It's as if we were writers and instead of 'do you write?' we said 'do you paper?'."

Charlene says "I keep my blog clean from ads and my business still thrives in other ways"

Mark says he's not feeling Blogosphere Angst.

Sara says that 2 things that can be done:

1. Monetization: We sold our boys on the cheep by selling click through ads. Write really good content and money will follow.

2. Community: She'd love to see comment systems fixed a bit. Video comments like sieszmic are great. She'd love to physically see her commenters. Would also love true data portability so that your real profile is used to comment.

Last Word: Beth Kantor: The indirect or intangible: Can't measure love, or learning. But she says she isn't feeling the angst either.

Wrap Up:

Sara wrapped up by saying: This was a little experimental keynote. More interesting that talking for an hour and she enjoyed it a lot.








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