tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37886248.post6987996925285229756..comments2024-03-22T00:35:19.082-07:00Comments on Casual Kitchen: The Collapsing Economics of Food BloggingDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02388302796031288076noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37886248.post-68611822621822263012016-11-16T08:55:02.006-08:002016-11-16T08:55:02.006-08:00I'm with chacha1. It seems like, hey, maybe I...I'm with chacha1. It seems like, hey, maybe I should have monetized and work at it and make some spare cash. But man, I'm an engineer with two kids. My spare time? I'd rather spend it with my kids than trying to put out decent content on a blog.<br /><br />So also goes the whole writing profession. I've got friends who are writers, or who are reporters in the newspaper business, etc. Now so much content is online, and the newspapers, news outlets are low-balling on payment. My neighbor is the editor in chief of our local free paper, and he considers himself lucky to still be employed in the industry.<br /><br />Our local pay paper has a horrible owner who basically fired (or caused to quit) all of the reporters, and then she replaced them with college students (yeah, few people buy that paper anymore).<br /><br />Just look at the accusations against Huffington Post or similar news sites and how they pay their people.Marciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13984899661746845414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37886248.post-36826929153682309092016-11-16T08:01:10.020-08:002016-11-16T08:01:10.020-08:00Thanks for a good comment Chacha. I wonder too how...Thanks for a good comment Chacha. I wonder too how I should be handling Casual Kitchen, whether I'm being foolish to not monetize it more, or even to take it further by take steps to grow my traffic AND monetize it more. <br /><br />At the end of the day I guess I just wanted to write about what I wanted to write about, and once I started thinking about it like that, I had a similar experience to what you had: it eliminated a lot of the existential anxiety I had about this blog. <br /><br />DKDanielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02388302796031288076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37886248.post-56533264708923751872016-11-15T18:35:51.818-08:002016-11-15T18:35:51.818-08:00I thought about trying to monetize my blog a coupl...I thought about trying to monetize my blog a couple of times. But when it came down to it, I already have a full-time job, and the blog was never going to replace that income. The stuff I tend to write about is simply not the kind of stuff that draws the kind of traffic that generates that kind of income.<br /><br />Giving up on the notion and letting it just be what it is, i.e. a navel-gazing writing exercise, took quite a bit of anxiety out of my life. :-)<br /><br />The one concession I have made (and it's pretty lame) is pinning a post about my novels etc to the top, with links. Someday I may be motivated to do more. Eh.chacha1http://www.ombailamos.comnoreply@blogger.com