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New York Bloggers Event: A year and lots of days ago

Bumped into some notes from the May 2004 New York Bloggers Event.

From a panel with Jason Calacanis and Nick Denton (sadly, the note-taker edits out the “excessive use of double entendres and vulgarities by the speakers”)

Denton: group blogs don’t work
Calacanis: yes they do. (e.g., Boing boing).

Good call, Calacanis. Denton must have accepted this when he added writers to Gawker, Wonkette, and Gizmodo. (By the way, girlspoke and boyspoke are sharp and funny group blogs.)

Q: how much is your co. worth in 5 years.

Calacanis: ~ 100 blogs this year, 200-300 next year, 500 in 3-4 years.
They should break $10m in ad revenues in 4 years or so, with $2-$3m in profits. Multiply that by 2-10 to get a valuation.

Denton: we’ll launch fewer sites and take more care of them, and won’t sell out.

Two hundred? Really? Cause I…maybe they’re…hiding? You did launch Xbox 360 Fanboy, which is kind of cool, except it’s about the decade’s most underwhelming console upgrade, and they’re writing about JCPenney prices and an Australian puzzle site. Must be the Long Tail.

From a technology panel

Q: Given unlimited resources & time, what would you do in this space?

MEG HOURIHAN: maybe use blogs in public schools to promote literacy, computer familiarity, etc.

A good idea too often reversed.

From an editors’ panel

Q: are there perks to being a celebrity blogger?

Choire [Sicha]: none

Loser just doesn’t want to share. I trust Blagg:

After rousing applause as I enter the glamorous affair, I take a glass from some sycophant journalist-type standing nearby, and raise it to make a toast. A moment of crypt-like silence before I utter the words they all lust for, “A blogger is as a blogger blogs”. Thunderous applause and cheers as many of the female party guests call out to me, offering their bodies for my every carnal whim.

This entry was posted by Nick Douglas on Wednesday, November 30th, 2005 at 7:29 am and is filed under Ana Marie Cox, Choire Sicha, Gawker Media, Jason Calacanis, Meg Hourihan, Nick Denton. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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