Night Thoughts December 22nd, 2009
I was about to call it a day and catch some crash before the arrival of tomorrow’s news, and the trumpet call to get back to blogging, but then I began to think about Denton. He founded a goddamn empire. And I thought about Calacanis, with his Weblogs. Money and words, two of my favorites.
Both Gawker and Weblogs are fun stories, but I really do think that all the hype and press around them forget an important input: words. Can you imagine the total words that were required to build up those millions in valuations? Terrifying, even to consider.
So, tomorrow, I am going to get up and write a few thousand words, mostly about breaking news, with some bullshit and opinion mixed in. And I will advance the TNW standard, I do love the team that I am fighting for. But it is a fucking long march to build a media empire.
So the next time that you read about some rags- to-billions media empire, think about how much content work went in. Then tell me it was fucking easy.
Points to Jason and Nick.
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