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Re: Most influential blogs
So how does anyone make money with a blog if not with advertising? Or
is a blog not for making money, only for writing?
Lee Reich, PhD
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On Mar 3, 2009, at 3:58 PM, Dee Nash wrote:
> Hi Suzi,
>
> As a blogger, I wasn't going to touch this one, but I decided to
> after all.
> BTW, a shout out to Jodi from bloomingwriter and Eliz, Amy & Susan
> from
> Garden Rant. Also, howdy to all my other blogging friends on this
> list, and
> there are a bunch of us.
>
> At the risk of missing man I read (and there's no way not to), I'll
> list the
> ones I always catch. However, I don't know that any of these are more
> influential than any of the others. I just like the writing, and as
> I've
> come to know them, the people behind the blogs too. Like Eliz, I
> probably
> have over 100 blogs on my Google Reader right now, and I also follow
> several
> on Blotanical, BlogCatalog, and I watch for new posts on Plurk,
> Facebook and
> Twitter.
>
> These are in no particular order:
>
> Mr. McGregor's Daughter: Love her sardonic wit and her constant
> fight with
> Benjamin Bunny. She also has the botanical education to back up
> what she
> writes.
>
> Cold Climate Gardening. Kathy's was one of the first blogs I read.
> Her
> writing is sharp and precise, and knowing how difficult it is to
> keep plants
> alive in her cold and very short season, I admire what she does to
> be able
> to garden. Our climates seem like polar opposites.
>
> May Dreams Gardens: one word: funny. Carol also has a Master's
> Degree in
> horticultural something or other. She, like the two women above,
> became a
> good friend, but I read her before I ever met her.
>
> bloomingwriter: Jodi writes beautiful prose, and she also gardens
> in a very
> tough, cold climate. I am fascinated by this and enjoy reading
> about her
> garden when mine is burnt to a crisp.
>
> Garden Rant: I would bet that almost everyone on this list reads GR
> on a
> regular basis. These four women, three of whom I now call friends
> (I've
> never Michelle), tapped into something in the gardening industry
> that wasn't
> being said. I like how each of them has their own separate voice,
> and by
> now, I can usually tell who is speaking before looking at the
> byline. They
> are very educated about their subject, and I find myself learning
> something
> new each time I tune in. I also read each of their individual blogs
> which
> set an entirely different tone.
>
> Digging: Pam's blog was one of the first I ever read, and I read it
> a long
> time before I created my own. She takes beautiful photographs, and
> she is a
> landscaping professional. Her words are pure poetry about a subject
> with
> which I am totally obsessed, and she gardens in a climate which is
> about a
> month ahead of mine.
>
> Idahogardener: If I'd never tapped into Idahogardener, I wouldn't
> have
> known a blessed thing about Boise and its wild, wild west. Mary Ann
> is a
> great writer, and I like her prairie horticulture insight. Plus,
> she's
> funny.
>
> Clay and Limestone: Gail loves native plants, and she has created a
> prairie
> meadow outside her home/office. She is a counselor, and she writes
> such
> soothing lines, I sigh and say "ah" when I read her.
>
> Fairegarden: Although I wish Frances's blog wasn't written with
> white type
> on a black background (it hurts my eyes), I love her enthusiastic
> writing
> style. She loves gardening,and she's very good at it. She is also
> one of
> the nicest people every. She, like Carol at May Dreams, is great at
> establishing a sense of community with her readers. It's probably
> why she
> was the Blotanist of the Year at Blotanical.
>
> Like I wrote, this isn't an exclusive list, and I try to hit all of
> my fav
> 100 blogs at least once a week. I haven't even delved into my fav
> blogs
> from England. "Oh, to be in England in the summertime."
>
> I was a bit nonplussed to hear that Garden Rant is "highly
> commercialized."
> They do run an ad in their sidebar, but so does Cold Climate Gardening
> (Kathy also has an Amazon store, something I would do if I could
> figure out
> how) as does May Dreams and several others. My blog, RDR, also has
> an ad at
> the bottom of the page,and two ads in the sidebar. I must be
> extraordinarily commercialized. Oh, and I make barely enough to pay
> for my
> domain and all of the work I do to keep the blog up to date, so I'm
> not
> making a fortune.
>
> Suzi, I hope this helps.
>
> Dee
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Elizabeth Licata
> <ealicata@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Suzi,
>>
>> When you're a blogger, you read many, many other blogs. That's how we
>> support each other. It's kind of like this listserv. We're a
>> community.
>>
>> Now, according to my Google Reader, I am trying to follow over 100
>> blogs! I
>> do read a post from each of them about once a week, though I don't
>> always
>> comment.
>>
>> I have my favorites, but I think it's more because I have gotten to
>> know
>> the personalities behind the blogs more than because I feel they are
>> influential.
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>> Eliz.
>>
>>
>> --- On Mon, 3/2/09, Susan McCoy <susan@gardenmediagroup.com> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Susan McCoy <susan@gardenmediagroup.com>
>>> Subject: RE: [GWL] Most influential blogs
>>> To: ealicata@yahoo.com, "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers
>> Forum" <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
>>> Date: Monday, March 2, 2009, 3:53 PM
>>> Elizabeth, everyone loves GardenRant. What other blogs do
>>> you read?
>>>
>>> Suzi McCoy
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: gardenwriters-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
>>> [g*@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf
>>> Of Elizabeth
>>> Licata
>>> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 3:22 PM
>>> To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum
>>> Subject: Re: [GWL] Most influential blogs
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Barbara,
>>>
>>> If we're "highly commercialized," someone had
>>> better show me the money.
>>> It has not materialized yet, nor have I high hopes that it
>>> will. I blog
>>> because it's fun.
>>>
>>> But thanks for the "reasonably good writers"
>>> part. And thanks for
>>> reading!
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Elizabeth Licata
>>> gardenrant.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --- On Mon, 3/2/09, Barbara Martin
>>> <cottagegardenpro@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Barbara Martin
>>> <cottagegardenpro@yahoo.com>
>>>> Subject: Re: [GWL] Most influential blogs
>>>> To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers
>>> Forum"
>>> <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>, "Susan
>>> McCoy"
>>> <susan@gardenmediagroup.com>
>>>> Date: Monday, March 2, 2009, 12:42 PM
>>>> Hi Suzi, If I bother to look at gardening on the
>>> internet at
>>>> all, I look at GardenRant, mostly for the
>>> quality/quantity
>>>> of the comments and to see what topic is
>>> "hot"
>>>> among the "cool" people. I appreciate that
>>> the
>>>> writers are prolific, smart, up to date, and
>>> reasonably good
>>>> writers. I also feel it is a highly commercialized
>>> blog and
>>>> discount it accordingly. Call me cynical. Cheers!
>>>>
>>>> Barbara Martin
>>>> latest post "Luxury Spending for Creatives"
>>>> http://reptitude.com/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --- On Mon, 3/2/09, Susan McCoy
>>>> <susan@gardenmediagroup.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> From: Susan McCoy
>>> <susan@gardenmediagroup.com>
>>>>> Subject: RE: [GWL]Most influential blogs
>>>>> To: cottagegardenpro@yahoo.com, "Garden
>>> Writers
>>>> -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum"
>>>> <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
>>>>> Date: Monday, March 2, 2009, 5:25 AM
>>>>> Speaking of blogs, which ones do you all read?
>>> Which
>>>> do you
>>>>> think are
>>>>> the most influential?
>>>>>
>>>>> Suzi McCoy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>
>
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