Blogging While Brown

by digby

Pam Spaulding is live blogging the Blogging While Brown conference at Pam’s House Blend. Following up on the post below about female bloggers being unable to monetize their blogs, this is interesting:

Gina McCauley, the host of the conference, discussed BWB sponsorship, and the fact that major publications such as Ebony, Essence and traditional media outlets had zero interest in backing projects like this, and quite frankly these outlets have seemed like a waste of time; new media companies came to her to offer sponsorship.

I’ve always felt that a nexus of new media and blogs would eventually become their own revenue stream. It hasn’t happened yet in any reliable fashion but it’s probably the way things will go. Political blogs have a special set of issues, but I would hope there is some kind of synergy

Check out her liveblogging for updates of the conference. There’s a link to a live stream as well.

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