Kevin Kelly’s legendary essay about a 1000 true fans was an eye-opener for many people who had been trying to live from what they love to do most. He wrote that whether you’re a blogger, musician, aspiring film maker, or painter: you’re in need of a 1000 fans who are willing to spend 100 dollars per year on your work (acquisitions, merchandise, donations, tickets, you name it).

Since this article was published, many people started thinking of ways to reach and…

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I’m a fan of the Rolling Stones. I went to their “Bigger Bang” concert in Budapest and had a blast. One of my friends knows about this strange worshiping of sixty year olds. To celebrate this somewhat freaky phenomenon, she once bought me a Stones tie. This garment was supposed to give me a rock ‘n’ roll appearance. Truth be told, I hated the thing. Only wore it once, for guilty consciousness-minded reasons.

Why did I hate that piece of merchandise?…

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As a blogger you have to read a lot, scan hundreds of short articles and write up your thoughts immediately. So there’s hardly any time left to really think about the bigger picture. Is this making us superficial?

Today I didn’t feel that good and was too tired to do some serious Web 2.0 reporting for The Next Web. On a normal Sunday - after an easy start - I read my feeds, empty my inbox and write a couple of…

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Gapingvoid lands a book deal…

It’s been twenty years when Hugh McLeod started drawing his “squiggly” cartoons and a decade when he decided to draw them on the back of business cards. It was the consequence of a “creative bug” he had. For him, this bug led to a lot of great work and experiences, yet this isn’t a guarantee that it will turn…

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Six Months In, And 600 Posts Later . . . The Worlds Of Blogging and Journalism Collide (In My Brain)

Today’s article is written by Erick Schonfeld, co-editor of world’s largest tech blog TechCrunch. Erick has one impressive track record, since he has been covering startups and technology news for 14 years. He ran the main blog of Business 2.0 (50,000 RSS readers), won…

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I use Fleck, Google Reader, Twitter, and Delicious. So that basically means I’m sharing loads of articles everyday. Yet I have the feeling, no, I’m sure, that most of these links get lost in the overwhelming amount of social bookmarks and Twitter updates. And yes, that fine. Except when it comes to those posts that have a little something extra. Posts every blogger or web-savvy should read. From now on I’ll highlight these posts on a daily basis. Here we…

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Today I talked about my inspiration for blogging on the Spin Awards Inspiration Days. I wanted to give the audience something to think about, instead of just give them an insight in my blogging mind. So I made a comparison between LSD and the Internet.

I came up with that comparison when I visited the exhibition Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era in The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. It showed what the hippies were all about:…

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