Blogging Jobs Boards

There's a post on Copyblogger about blogging growing up, and linking to a couple of new blogging jobs boards. There was also some discussion of blogging for hire on the BoS forums. I agree with the view that hiring bloggers is probably for larger companies, or for those looking to build a blog network, I don't think there's a lot for Micro ISVs there... unless you run a Micro ISV, have a lot to say, and don't necessarily want to associate it all with your business. Or, maybe you have a hobby you'd like to be paid to blog about.

The volume/quality aspect of blogging for hire is interesting. As well as this blog, I've been blogging on Codesnipers for a year now. A lot of the time I've found it difficult to guarantee one article per week, most of the adverts I saw on the jobs boards were looking for at least 5 or 6. I guess it depends on the length and nature of the article... and I guess that if you are being paid to blog, you feel more comfortable allocating a big chunk of your working day to picking a hot topic and writing a diggable top 10 list on it.

Also, Nick Hebb (the flow chart king) mentions in the forum thread that doesn't have time for interesting blogs, he now uses them as a resource for his business, to me that means he skims through his feed reader looking for useful articles or links. Bonus link: Chartreuse, the Death of Content. All this probably explains why the Micro ISV digest turned out to be popular, essentially it became the resource element of this blog. I'm doing the scanning of dozens of feeds and providing a human filtered picture of the week, if you go away on holiday for a week, you should be able to scan the digest when you get back and feel reasonably comfortable that you didn't miss anything.

If all of this is correct, all I'm doing right now is diluting my resource. I'll shut up.