In part 2 of this series, I mentioned that it took me a year to make money (via advertising) from my blog, Muniwireless.com. You won’t attract advertisers in the first month of blogging because you probably won’t have a lot of readers.
How many visitors do you need to attract advertisers? How do you get and [...]
I posted two articles on Rosecantine.com about the newspaper business which has seen its product — the news — become commoditized. There’s a debate going on in the industry about whether they should put content behind a pay wall or make it all free. The lesson is that if you have something special your competitors [...]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has an online legal guide for bloggers. The guide applies to people live in the US and does not discuss foreign legal issues. It provides an overview of liability issues and more detailed sections on intellectual property law, privacy, defamation (libel), the Freedom of Information Act, etc.
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This is the story I like to tell often because it is so unbelievable. Back in May 2005, when Muniwireless.com had already established itself as the place to go to for all things muni Wi-Fi, I was wondering, how do I take it to the next stage? Many people were asking me to hold conferences [...]
By May 2005, I had managed to build an online portal dedicated to a very specific topic: municipal wireless broadband networks. Without any investment other than my time and web hosting costs, the site became the authority on the subject of citywide Wi-Fi. Cities and counties that were thinking of deploying these networks came to [...]
