Monday
Dec212009
Night Thoughts
Monday, December 21, 2009 at 07:44PM
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.
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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