The Blogger Rock Band Analogy

Posted on July 22, 2005

This is the first time we have seen bloggers compared to rock bands. A recent Wired article about web publishers that are looking again at the idea of paid content ended with the following comments about bloggers by Pat Kenealy, International Data Group's CEO:

And what of blogs?
Kenealy tosses out another analogy: "Every blogger is a rock band without a record contract."
I guess he means weblogs will continue to be free.

Kenealy also thinks that improvements in software wil help micro-transactions lead they way towards paid content. The problem with Kenealy's theory is that right now blogs are making it easy for people to find all the free content that's available online and giving them free access to experts in all fields.