Comments on: Business Week profiles the big money blogs

By: Maxx

Maxx — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:53:11 +0000

If profit was Michelle’s primary motivation, HotAir would not exist.

By: zb42

zb42 — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:10:35 +0000

REPOST (corrected for spelling. sorry): Congrats for the well-deserved MSM accolades! MM has been on the bleeding edge with blogging and now on the leading edge.

The only reason she’s operating at a slight loss is because she’s so generous with compensation. Allahpundit on July 16, 2007 at 6:46 PM

Ok AP, you just blew my IPhone sympathy vote for you… You can *get* it yourself.

So Allah, when are you going to have your face on Fox? That’ll be the day. He has to protect his secret identity, lest the fatwas fly. Bad Penny on July 16, 2007 at 7:29 PM

Plus, it’ll blow AP’s *whole* Phantom of Hotair schtick which he’s trying to parlay into the doubly tantalizing babe-magnet threat of Rushdie-like fatwa target and masked genius who terrorizes the political blogosphere. Ah, but who will be Christine Daaé to AP’s Erik? Hotair should run a poll, but I’m sure in AP’s dreams it’d be her. zb42 on July 17, 2007 at 10:03 AM

By: zb42

zb42 — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:03:05 +0000

Congrats for the well-deserved MSM accolades! MM has been on the bleeding edge with blogging and is now on the leading edge.

The only reason she’s operating at a slight loss is because she’s so generous with compensation.
Allahpundit on July 16, 2007 at 6:46 PM

Ok AP, you just blew my IPhone sympathy vote for you… You can guy it yourself.

So Allah, when are you going to have your face on Fox?

That’ll be the day. He has to protect his secret identity, lest the fatwas fly.

Bad Penny on July 16, 2007 at 7:29 PM

Plus, it’ll blow AP’s who Phantom of Hotair schtick which he’s trying to parlay into the doubly tantalizing babe-magnet threat of Rushdie-like fatwa target and masked genius who terrorizes the political blogosphere.

Ah, but who will be Christine Daaé to AP’s Erik?

Hotair should run a poll, but I’m sure in AP’s dreams it’d be her.

By: Maxx

Maxx — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:33:50 +0000

The only reason she’s operating at a slight loss is because she’s so generous with compensation.

Allahpundit on July 16, 2007 at 6:46 PM

If you want the good folks… you got to pay them.

By: profitsbeard

profitsbeard — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:43:06 +0000

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By: Griz

Griz — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:13:49 +0000

In 9 months there’ll be a much smaller, better iPhoneII any way AP.

By: sonnyspats1

sonnyspats1 — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:36:24 +0000

I couldn’t tell for sure but Michelle seemed a little irked Allah. For your sake I hope you don’t get the Russel Crowe model eye-phone! heh heh heh

By: BKennedy

BKennedy — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:30:27 +0000

Even operating at a slight loss, I, for one, am very glad you’re around. So, does anyone know what KOS makes from that POS site he runs?

thedecider on July 16, 2007 at 9:55 PM

KOS is a complete and total tool of the Democrats. Even if he didn’t make money, George Soros and/or the DNC would subsidize him.

By: wordwarp

wordwarp — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:28:35 +0000

The only reason she’s operating at a slight loss is because she’s so generous with compensation.

Allahpundit on July 16, 2007 at 6:46 PM

Also, because everytime she appears on TV, the url below her name is michelemalkin.com, not hotair.com

There’s yer revenue problem right there, alrighty.

The revenue that would bring the magic….

By: thedecider

thedecider — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:55:35 +0000

Even operating at a slight loss, I, for one, am very glad you’re around. So, does anyone know what KOS makes from that POS site he runs?

By: TunaTalon

TunaTalon — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:35:25 +0000

Michelle Malkin gets more than 220,000 visits per day, but says her sites still operate at a slight loss.

This is very encouraging. My start-up is at least like Michelle’s in one way. Well maybe a just a little bit encouraging.

By: ronsfi

ronsfi — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:40:55 +0000

Operating at a loss? Clearly a “Big Blogs” conspiracy to avoid taxes.
Harrumph!

By: ronsfi

ronsfi — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:40:54 +0000

Operating at a loss? Clearly a “Big Blogs” conspiracy to avoid taxes.
Harrumph!

By: ronsfi

ronsfi — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:40:12 +0000

Operating at a loss? Clearly a “Big Blogs” conspiracy to avoid taxes.
Harrumph!

By: Kini

Kini — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:33:03 +0000

I’d love to help you out AP, but I got my own cash flow problems.
Big money blogs are much like George Soros, NPR, or PBS, they get the big bucks, but no viewers.

By: WoosterOh

WoosterOh — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:42:02 +0000

Well, Yon not making a lot of money yet puts out great dispatches. His latest is sad, but has a great ending. Superman and the Invincibles.

By: steveegg

steveegg — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:38:35 +0000

Er, that should be 300 GB storage (must’ve been a DOS slip :-)

By: steveegg

steveegg — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:37:05 +0000

Speaking of iPhones, AP, wouldn't you rather have a 4-shot .22-caliber phone?

By: steveegg

steveegg — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:35:49 +0000

So my slight loss of $18/month to maintain my blogging habit is keeping me competitive with the MM/HotAir empire? Sweet. Just a few more months to start raking in the crazy blog money.

a4g on July 16, 2007 at 7:04 PM

You’re paying $18/month for hosting? You better be burning some serious bandwidth (though not nearly as serious as HA; they probably go through in about a day what I’m allowed for the month).

By: Tantor

Tantor — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:35:09 +0000

Looks like you’ll need to run more stories about cheeseburger-eating cats if you want to get the readership over the top enough to buy those iPhones.

By: steveegg

steveegg — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:32:27 +0000

At a loss? That doesn’t make any sense. This is one of the best out there.

Esthier on July 16, 2007 at 6:44 PM

Have you priced media-class bandwidth (both instantaneous and monthly allowance) and disk storage space lately? It’s a LOT more expensive than my $7/month for 250 MB storage and 3 TB bandwidth/month, and unlike HA, I have to share server load with a lot of other people.

By: Bad Penny

Bad Penny — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:29:52 +0000

So Allah, when are you going to have your face on Fox?

That’ll be the day. He has to protect his secret identity, lest the fatwas fly.

By: pedestrian

pedestrian — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:19:31 +0000

So Allah, when are you going to have your face on Fox? In no time you’ll be on your iPhone with all the warblogging babes.

By: tmitsss

tmitsss — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:05:28 +0000

Without giving away any secrets, how does the revenue thingy work for HotAir? Better yet, can we do anything to help it?

Next time that stupid link to PETA shows up here. Click it and laugh a bit then come back. Money then goes from PETA to HotAir. Sweet.

By: a4g

a4g — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:04:04 +0000

So my slight loss of $18/month to maintain my blogging habit is keeping me competitive with the MM/HotAir empire? Sweet. Just a few more months to start raking in the crazy blog money.