Professional Blogger - Professional Journalist Comparison

The journalist is – on average – a contributor to the publication of a publisher who sells news.

The blogger – in general – is a manufacturer and retailer at the same time, because the individual characteristics of most blogger.

And this double role of the blogger is the main difference compared to the journalist, where elements of both productivity more distinct.
Source: http://www.jasonpowers.org/103-profiles-of-productivity-journalist-blogger-versus.html


Blogging versus Professional Journalists  - Nov 2011

Defining the Journalism versus blogger debate - Scientific American Article - August 2011

Blogging versus Professional Reporting  - Suzanstmaur - July 2011

Am I a journalist or a blogger?  Mark Glaser - March 2008

Bloggers versus Journalists who cares? Chris Brogan Jan 2008

Use of Blogs by Journalism Professors and Schools - Chung - 2007 - Research paper pdf file

Top Internet Properties USA - 2011

Nielsen Picks based on data Jan - October 2011

Google tops as a brand 153,441,000+ monthly unique visitors (average)
Facebook follows with 137 million+

Blogger is top blogging platform with 45,712,000


Wikipedia had 62 million+.

Graduate From Novice Blogspot - Blogger to Professional Blogger

How many professional bloggers are out there.

In USA there are 450,000 professional bloggers. Even Bureau of Labor Statistics reported them. That number is as good as the number of lawyers in USA. So professional blogger, who writes for earning money either on his own, or as a paid writer for Blogging sites is an important income earner.

But how do you graduate into a professional blogger. By starting a blog as a novice on freely available blog hosting platforms.

Any role models?

Take Marshall Kirkpatrick


http://marshallk.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_marshallk_archive.html

Read his story as told in a 2010 article wherein he mentions his initial blogging effort as a blogspot blogger.

Interesting write up
How to become a freelance blog writer - June 2007 Leo Babauta
Mentioned that he makes $2000 a month extra apart from his full time job
Advises people to start with their own blog first

Happy New Year 2012 - Videos

Happy New Year 2012

Best wishes for the New Year
With hope for the best for near and dear
Expect a year of cheer
There will be progress in career

Your efforts will be sincere
If required sufficiently severe
Rewards will be grandeur
and recognition in your sphere

For you ideas, every one will have ear
To join your team, nobody will have hear
Let your dreams fly high in a dornier
Greet everybody  "Happy New Year".

Narayana Rao Poems Collection


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Blogging, Blogs and Bloggers in USA

Hosted blog platforms were started in 1998.
Open diary was launched in 1998.
Live Journal was launched in March 1999
Blogger was launched in August in 1999
(Wikipedia article on blogs  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog   )


2012
12 essential tips for revitalizing your blog in 2012

Tumblr 39,163,985 blogs
50 million+ posts in a day (1.1.2012)
Wordpress say around 35 million+ blogs
Blogger does not disclose anything officially.

Million dollar blog project

2011
December 2011
Edublog awards 2011

November 2011
247,000 bloggers dies this year and leave 453,000 blogs from USA.
http://blog.entrustet.com/tag/how-many-bloggers-die-in-usa/


Blogging is decreasing and young ones are moving to Facebook and Twitter
Verne Kopytoff in New York Times - February 2011
Blogger in December 2010 had 2% less unique visitors at 58.6 million. But Globally still it had increase in visitors to 323 million.

2010
Teens and Young Adults are not Blogging - Moving away from blogs
Social media and young adults - Pew study - February 2010
Full Pew Report  - 2010  usage of various internet services

2009
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 452,000 bloggers
Business insider.com article



2006
Very Interesting Study on Blogging by Pew Internet

Important points
Blogging is bringing new group of writers and creators. 54% of the bloggers have not written any thing elsewhere.
Around 32% only are writing for audience. Rest are writing for their personal expression and satisfaction. Only 7% are writing with an aim to make money.
53% have a single blog.
17% have two blogs
26% have three or more blogs
Only 13% post in their blog daily
Typical blogger spends only 2 hours per week.
Income sources: Selling items, Advertisement, Donations, Premium content sales
13% have more than 100 hits per day.
10% of the blogs have received some sort of public recognition.
Half of the bloggers get traffic from people they know only.
Number of Americans who keep a blog: 12 million


Blogging in USA 2004


By end of 2004, there are 8 million bloggers in USA.
Pew Internet Report - 2005

History and Economy of Countries of The World

Germany

India

South Korea

Global Print Media

India
Periodicals 41,705
Dailies 4720
weeklies 14,743
http://www.slideshare.net/guestacd5bd/industry-analysis-of-print-media

USA

Newspapers 10,521
Periodicals 9,893

http://www.allcountries.org/uscensus/931_newspapers_and_periodicals_number_by_type.html

Number of magazines by category - 1999-2010



UK
Circulation figures of top 271 audited periodicals - 2011 first half



The scientific periodicals published in the world is 164,000
http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/docs/00/14/59/15/TXT/InetFreeAccessScienceDraft.txt 

Making the first post in WordPress blog

Visit



http://www.thebloggingblog.net/writing-your-first-blog-post-in-wordpress/

Why Knol failed? - Lack of Traffic

Why Knol failed? Knol failed because adequate visitors numbers were not there.

Knol reached up to the level of 10 million page views per month.


Compare it with blogs on Sina.com. This website had 0.3 billion page views per day for blog posts contributed by public. 5140 adsense using bloggers and 26,974 non-adsense using users contrbuted to the blog posts.

These users contributed 4,359,000+ blog posts in during May 2007 to January 2008. 4 million+ posts in one year eight months. Knol could not reach one million posts at the end of three years.


Source for information on Sina.com
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1735696

Interesting Blogspot Blogs - December 2011 - January 2012

Car scoop - Latest automibile news

Shabbir Bhimani - New Online Entrepreneur from India - 2004

Shabbir Bhimani is now a successful online entrepreneur with Rs 3 Lakh income per month.


Article in Mint 26.12.2011

http://www.livemint.com/2011/12/25212800/Decoding-solutions-for-experts.html

Entry in hot startups Tata Nen competition - 2008

Blogger has 15.3 million urls

http://www.conceivablytech.com/3121/business/30-million-and-more-will-microsoft-acquire-wordpress


2010 data

Social Media Monitoring - May 2011

http://boic.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/u-s-facebook-users-clock-in-53-5-billion-mins/

Face Book 140 million unique visitors - 53.5 billion minutes

Blogger 50 million uv - 723 million minutes

Are Bloggers Journalists?

Discussion comes up as courts have said bloggers are not journalists employed in formal news gathering establishments.


http://www.webpronews.com/are-bloggers-journalists-2-2011-12

December 2011

Search Result Rank Checking Facility

Principles of Management

http://www.webstatschecker.com/stats/keyword/principles_of_management

24 (20.11.2011)

Value engineering

http://www.webstatschecker.com/stats/keyword/value_engineering

71 (20.11.2011)

Blogs updated today - 24.12.2011

http://nraofilms.blogspot.com/

Management videos

Google Gives Back in 2011

Google contributed more than 100+ million dollars this year to various organization to continue their good work. The four areas mainly focused are Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics education9STEM), Girl's education, Empowerment through technolgy, Fighting modern day slavery - Human trafficking


For more details and organizations supported visit

http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/givesback/2011/

Added YouTube Videos to Marketing Management Book

Marketing Strategy - Key Decision Areas of Marketing Function

Branding Strategy and Brand Equity

Brand Positioning

Contents page posted for Marketing Management Online Book

http://bbmktgmgmt.blogspot.com/2011/12/marketing-management-contents.html

Management Theory Review Now has 5000 Page Views - 21-12-2011

The management theory review blog http://nraomtr.blogspot.com has now 5000 cumulative page views.

Articles related to Business ethics are posted today in the blog.

Advertising online - Evolution and Trends

http://www.intertic.org/Policy%20Papers/EvansEOAI.pdf
2009 paper detailed information.
$12.50 cost per mille high quality web content sites
$0.50 cost per mille for social networks
1 clicks per 400 viewers


Interesting information
Top bloggers and their earnings
http://www.thedigeratilife.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/12/make-money-blogging-top-bloggers-and-how-much-they-earn/
2008 article

Blogs of Narayana Rao - Blogger Profiles

http://www.blogger.com/profile/05748254811752425330

http://www.blogger.com/profile/06910963946568975568

http://www.blogger.com/profile/00137977090611542246

http://www.blogger.com/profile/17200603552794374110

Management Blogs and Sites with Alexa Ranks

This summary is not available. Please click here to view the post.

Online Advertising Revenues Forecast 2012

2012
Global ad spending in major media will rise to $486 billion in 2012 (4.7% growth)(Adage)


References
Adagehttp://adage.com/article/global-news/forecasts-2012-ad-spending-revised-downward/231354/

2011

Total Internet advertising in 2011 will be $78.5 billion
(Source:http://printinthemix.com/Fastfacts/Show/506
Google's total advertising revenue in 2010 is $28.236 billion. In it $19.44 billion is from its own properties and $8.792 billion is from Network members' websites
(http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html

In the third quarter US internet advertising spend increased to $7.9 billion (IAB, Nov)

IAB (Nov) http://www.iab.net/about_the_iab/recent_press_releases/press_release_archive/press_release/pr-113011

PEW research on Online media types and advertising growth
http://stateofthemedia.org/2011/online-essay/

Digital advertising revenue of New York Times Media Group, which publishes the New York Time, increased 6.2% to $50.3m in the three months to September 2011, compared with a 10.4% drop in print advertising revenue in the period.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/oct/20/new-york-times-digital-subscribers

Demand media second quarter revenue is up at $76.6 million exclusive of traffic acquision costs. 13,000 writers contribute article to the sites of Demand media.
(http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/09/us-demand-idUSTRE7786WT20110809

2009
Advertisers spent $22.7 billion online in 2009 — 3.4% less than they spent in 2008.

http://mashable.com/2010/04/07/online-ad-spend/

Virtual Schools - Cyber Schools - K12

K12 Inc. is a big private online education business. It was founded by a former Goldman Sachs banker and by William Bennett, and Mike Milken. Its teachers generally work from their homes, communicating with their students by e-mail or phone.

Representative Harry Brooks is the chief sponsor of the Virtual Public Schools Act. It gives local school districts the authority to start their own online education.


Vitual Public Schools Act, Tennessee'

Blog posts 18.12.2012

Knol article on introduction to Human Resource Management migrated to Management Theory Review Blog.

http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/human-resource-management-introduction.html

Earning Adsense $100 per month - You are a big player in Internet

The average income that a web property can earn through Google adsense is $1.5 per month. If you are earning $100 per month, you are certainly a big player.

Supporting figures 400 million websites + blogs
Income available for quarter $1.768 billion

Internet statistics - 2010

Related post
Average Income for a top 50,000 blog

Internet 2010 - Statitics

Visit

http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/internet-2010-in-numbers/

Blogs 152 million blogs (tracked by Blogpulse_ End 2010.
websites 255 million
(Total sites looking for ad revenue; 400 million

$2.6 billion is the revenue generated by partner sites in third quarter of 2011.

68% of it is the income to partners approximately. It comes out to be $1.768 billion. This means on an average $4.42 are available for each web property for a quarter. It means $1.5 per month. So any author earning $100 has to be on to put in great effort.

How Adsense Ads on Blogger Pay?

In the blog post inside Adsense Google informed that it pays 68% of what is receives to publishers. But do publishers on Blogger receive 68%? Or ads on bloggers are paid less to take care of hosting costs on Blogger. Of course it will be good, if Blogger keeps a share and remains profitable business. May be Google can insert a blogger search facility and keep the revenue from the search results for itself. Actually, when we are publishing some ads are coming along with the posted message. But bloggers may not normally click those advertisements. They fear Google advertisements. So it will be good, if Google inserts search facility on Blogger landing page for visitors and inserts search ads in those results.

68% is content and 51% is for search advertisements.

Learning PHYSICS for IIT JEE - Blog

This is the second blog that I started. After a month of posting, I came to know that there is good interest to read the contents of this blog. My blogging for public reading started with this blog. The initial visitors gave me the push to write and that endeavor is still continuing (Dec. 2011). I could not continue with this blog as I shifted my attention to management and allied subjects. But now once again I am trying to rearrange the blog posts and probably improve the content to make it more useful.

IIT JEE Physics Blog

A page is created to show the notes prepared for the chapters in the syllabus

Details of study guides, concept revision notes, and formula revision sheets

Blogs with English Poems

Art- Poems - Stories

Thought by Nrao Blog

Thought by NRao is the first blog started by me in 2006. Interesting posts/articles in this blog are being assembled in a blog page

Interesting post - Thought/nrao blog

The blog helped me to me start my next blog on IIT JEE Physics as it showed me how to start blog and insert adsense into blog.

Indian Bloggers - A list in 2004

http://indianbloggers.blogspot.com/

Top Indian Bloggers and Adsense Income

1. Amit Agarwal
2. Amit Bhawani
3. Harsh Agrawal
4. Jaspal Singh
5. Arun Prabhu Desai
6. Nirmal
7. Rohit Langde
8. Rahul Bansal
9. Honey Singh
10. Srinivas Tamada


Visit

http://merabheja.com/top-10-indian-bloggers/

Top 250 Blogs of Indians
http://nraoblogs.blogspot.com/2011/12/study-of-250-top-indian-blogs.html

Page ranks of Indian Blogs - 2008 Analysis

Visit

http://binaryday.com/2008/12/28/pagerank-profile-and-other-details-of-6000-indian-blogs/

Top 100 Indian blogs according to Alexa Rank in 2009

Visit

http://binaryday.com/2009/01/01/top-100-indian-blogs-according-to-alexa-rank/

Recently Updated Blogs Link

click the link to see the blogs updated in the last 10 minutes



http://www.blogger.com/changes10.g

blogging.nitecruzr.net Daily 2000+ page views

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net
gets daily 2000+ page views.

It is on various issues related to blogging on Blogger.

Backlinks: Distribution and Marketing Outlets to Your Blogs and Online Articles

I am an online author with 100,000+ page views per month.

I realized the importance of backlinks when I read a hub by ryankett. He mentioned that he makes at least three book marks on social book marking sites and one on his person blog. He also gives twitter messages and makes sure that tags are there. (How to get 100,000 visitors per Month ). I captured the advice in the knol and am informing knol authors about it. I started giving twitter messages regularly.

Embedding a Knol in my Blogs

21.2.2011

I embedded the knol Knol Books Catalogue in my blogs yesterday (20.2.2011). My blogs are popular with around 500 page views per day. Today morning my analytics showed that there 103 visits in 18 hours. This is the first time I am observing the strong power of backlinks myself. If the information that you are providing is interesting backlinks work as distribution outlet for your online articles and blogposts. So the idea of my knol collection is well illustrated by this incident.

(Backlinks: Distribution and Marketing Outlets to Your Knols ) .


16.12.2011

I get 100+ page views for my embedded knol every day.



To read number of articles on backlinks on Knol visit
http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao/backlinks-distribution-and-marketing/2utb2lsm2k7a/3939


Updated 5.1.2012

Adding meta tags to Blogspot blogs

Visit the article by Nayan Banik


http://infoistic.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-to-add-meta-tags-to-blogspot-blog.html

Blogs posted 15.12.2011

Updated http://iit-jee-chemistry.blogspot.com/


Updated http://nraomtr.blogspot.com with articles on industrial engineering.

Faculty Blogs - Professors' Blogs

Visit the Google+ plus post

https://plus.google.com/u/0/111865631103432398685/posts/giPtUd7wA3H#111865631103432398685/posts/giPtUd7wA3H


100 Best Professors' Blogs

Marketing Professors' Daily Blog - Contributed by number of Professors

50 B-School Professors' Blogs

Blog and Wiki Facilities for Students and Faculty - Aalto University Initiative

http://www.aalto.fi/en/



https://noppa.aalto.fi/noppa/app

Augmented Reality Application by Nivea

http://mashable.com/2011/11/01/rihanna-nivea-augmented-reality/

Sixth sense applications being used by marketers. Sixth sense application is based on images. You show an image to a camera connected to a computer and computer does some processing and gives you information on a screen. The screen may or may not be a computer monitor. When the screen is not a computer monitor but any real item, it becomes augmented reality. The virtual image is superimposed on real surface or real object.

Augmented Reality Application by Starbucks

http://mashable.com/2011/11/08/starbucks-ar-app/

The application starts when people point out their camera to starbucks cups and other specified objects in Starbucks retail outlets.

Nrao Blog Posts 9.12.2011

Articles on supply chain management added to Management Theory Review Blog

http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/supply-chain-performance-achieving.html

Information about Website Design and Marketing

http://www.roimedia.co.za/the-anatomy-of-a-perfect-website/

Interesting Blogs Economics and Management

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

NRao Blog Posts - 7.12.2011

An Interesting Blog/Site - Einstein21.Org

Top Blogspot Blogs with Alexa Ranks

An Interesting Blog/Site - Einstein21.Org

http://einstein21.org/About.htm

The site was started by Hardyna Vedder who advocates use all features/facilities of Internet to provide multiple views on any topic to be learned. She calls the method butterfly method or papillon method. The learner flies like a butterfly in the internet space and drops on the right flower that has the nectar of knowledge that he will find tasty. His knowledge is strengthened by that nectar. The site provides various book chapters that provide students the learning experience and teachers and writer the example to create more such internet books

Interesting Blogspot blogs

jntuworldportal.blogspot.com Alexa rank 60,552

Largest 3D Drawing 2011

http://illjuzija.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/ogromnyj-3d-risunok-na-asfalte-ci-sinxa.jpg

One Year performance on Wordpress - WP Mayor

November 25 2011

http://www.wpmayor.com/2362/news/happy-birthday-wp-mayor-is-1-year-old/

25,000 unique visitors per month in a year

Alexa rank 58,333

Google analytics for my knols showed maximum of 70,000 unique visitors per month

Leadership Blogs

Sheri Mackey on Leadership
http://sherimackey.com

Performance of a HR Blog

http://www.simplehrguide.com/hr-project-summary-april-2011

25,000 page views a month

Human Resource Management Blogs

HR Management Guide

Project Management Blogs

http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/introduction-to-project-management.html

http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/articles.html

Nrao Blog Search Engine

developed on 4.12.2011
To be reposted everytime there is configuration change. Every time more blogs are added to the engine
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Blog posts 4-12-2011 - Marketing Management Online Book

Marketing Management Online Book has now more chapters with topics and articles. Once all chapters are filled in the initial round, more articles will be added.

Management Theory Review site nas now more articles in the area of marketing management. Almost all articles in Marketing Management are now posted in the site.

Marketing Blogs Collections

Marketing Management Blogs

Marketing Management Online Book

http://dangalante1.wordpress.com/

Marketing articles in Management Theory Review

Marketing Management

The Blog of Prof Czinkota

Dr. Neil Hair

Prof Harsh Verma's Blog

John Svlokla - Former Professor, Marketing, HBS

Updates to Management Theory Review Blog

http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/search/label/Marketing%20Management

Added more knols of Marketing management. Still 10 to 12 knols are to be added to complete the migration of marketing knols to this blog collection. Then they will be posted in the online marketing management book http://bbmktgmgmt.blogspot.com/

Global Agricultural Marketing Management - Online Book

FAO, 1997

http://www.fao.org/docrep/w5973e/w5973e00.htm#Contents

Online Books

World Academy Courses

Top Blogspot Blog - Fosspatents

Alexa rank 72,675 December 2011

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/

Statistics sources for some sites

Nitie.edu http://www.checksitetraffic.com/traffic_spy/www.nitie.edu
(nitie rank 310,251)

Alexa 19999 rank blog http://www.checksitetraffic.com/traffic_spy/aessuccess.org

Alexa 30511 http://www.checksitetraffic.com/traffic_spy/karodalnet.blogspot.com

Wordpress.com http://www.checksitetraffic.com/traffic_spy/wordpress.com

Motilaloswal.com http://www.checksitetraffic.com/traffic_spy/www.motilaloswal.com

iit-jee-chemistry.blogspot.com http://www.checksitetraffic.com/traffic_spy/www.iit-jee-chemistry.blogspot.com
(iit-jee-chemistry blog rank 3,340,554)

How to get blog listed on search engines and get visitors?

Discussion in Google forum

Free lessons on Yoga

http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
Visit the site on advanced yoga practies AYP
http://www.aypsite.com/

Google+ page of the site

Do Right Things Today - Swamy Chinmayananda

Tomorrow we will be what we are now plus what and how we faced life's challenges today. This is the law of cosmic justice.

Quotation of Swami Chinmayananda

At all time send our thoughts of love to all; kindness to all; blessings to all.
Soon you will find all including your enemies, showering you with love.

To know more about Wordpress

http://www.michaelmccallister.com/


Michael McCallister wrote a book on WordPress

Value Engineering Online Book

Developing the book

http://bbvae.blogspot.com/

Blog book on value analysis and engineering

A new blog started

Marketing Management - Online Book

Safety Engineering and Management - Online Blog Book

A book framework is created. The book will have chapters and chapters will have sections. Each section will be an online article available on the web.

Safety Engineering and Management

Blogger help tips

Keyboard shortcuts

Blogger has several keyboard shortcuts you can use while editing posts. They definitely work in Internet Explorer 5.5+/Windows and the Mozilla family (1.6+ and Firefox 0.9+), and might work in other browsers. Here they are:
• control + b = Bold
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• control + l = Blockquote (when in HTML-mode only)
• control + z = Undo
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• control + p = Publish Post
• control + s = Autosave and keep editing
• control + g = Indic transliteration


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The text between the tags will be what your reader sees and clicks on. The URL indicated by href= is the address they will be taken to. For more information on links, please see How can I do more with links?

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Email links work like webpage links. Just replace http:// with mailto: and replace the URL with an email address.
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Colors, Fonts, Alignment and anything else you can think of...
You can adjust the precise appearance and positioning of all the elements listed above and more, through the magic of CSS. See: What else can I do with CSS?


To write a tag that opens in a new window

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