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	<title>Comments on: Are professional bloggers getting screwed? Time to become a free agent!</title>
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		<title>By: Ed Sutherland</title>
		<link>http://www.bloggersforhire.com/blog/2007/02/26/are-professional-bloggers-getting-screwed-time-to-become-a-free-agent/#comment-397</link>
		<dc:creator>Ed Sutherland</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just a note announcing the first issue of &lt;a href=&quot;http://problognews.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Professional Blogging News&lt;/a&gt; is available. This issue contains an interview with Jim on the subject of blogger pay, along with talks with Daniel at DailyBlogTips and Andrew Keen, author of the controversial &lt;i&gt;The Cult of the Amateur: How The Internet is Killing Our Culture&lt;/i&gt;.

Ed</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just a note announcing the first issue of <a href="http://problognews.com" rel="nofollow">Professional Blogging News</a> is available. This issue contains an interview with Jim on the subject of blogger pay, along with talks with Daniel at DailyBlogTips and Andrew Keen, author of the controversial <i>The Cult of the Amateur: How The Internet is Killing Our Culture</i>.</p>
<p>Ed</p>
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		<title>By: Marcel</title>
		<link>http://www.bloggersforhire.com/blog/2007/02/26/are-professional-bloggers-getting-screwed-time-to-become-a-free-agent/#comment-396</link>
		<dc:creator>Marcel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I would like to pay bloggers more.

But, what CAN be paid is determined by the market and future profitability.
It&#039;s not the bloggers fault.  It&#039;s the market that&#039;s still maturing and growing.

Marcel
http://blogpostsforsale.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would like to pay bloggers more.</p>
<p>But, what CAN be paid is determined by the market and future profitability.<br />
It&#8217;s not the bloggers fault.  It&#8217;s the market that&#8217;s still maturing and growing.</p>
<p>Marcel<br />
<a href="http://blogpostsforsale.com" rel="nofollow">http://blogpostsforsale.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: Jim Turner</title>
		<link>http://www.bloggersforhire.com/blog/2007/02/26/are-professional-bloggers-getting-screwed-time-to-become-a-free-agent/#comment-395</link>
		<dc:creator>Jim Turner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Looking forward to seeing your site Ed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Looking forward to seeing your site Ed.</p>
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		<title>By: Ed Sutherland</title>
		<link>http://www.bloggersforhire.com/blog/2007/02/26/are-professional-bloggers-getting-screwed-time-to-become-a-free-agent/#comment-394</link>
		<dc:creator>Ed Sutherland</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Easton,

Good article with a worthy point. Coming from the traditional print and journalism side, it is a long-held tenant that professional writers do not work for peanuts -- doing so only drives down the entire market. It is good to hear that message is making its way into the blog space.

It is not enough to call yourself a professional blogger and point to that tag as a sign of professional blogging. Pay is another factor. Until blog publishers pay professional rates and blog writers turn down sweatshop rates, the business will remain a novelty. Just my two cents.

(By the way, in July, I&#039;ll be opening a website created to discuss these nagging, but often overlooked issues.)

Ed</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Easton,</p>
<p>Good article with a worthy point. Coming from the traditional print and journalism side, it is a long-held tenant that professional writers do not work for peanuts &#8212; doing so only drives down the entire market. It is good to hear that message is making its way into the blog space.</p>
<p>It is not enough to call yourself a professional blogger and point to that tag as a sign of professional blogging. Pay is another factor. Until blog publishers pay professional rates and blog writers turn down sweatshop rates, the business will remain a novelty. Just my two cents.</p>
<p>(By the way, in July, I&#8217;ll be opening a website created to discuss these nagging, but often overlooked issues.)</p>
<p>Ed</p>
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		<title>By: Judith</title>
		<link>http://www.bloggersforhire.com/blog/2007/02/26/are-professional-bloggers-getting-screwed-time-to-become-a-free-agent/#comment-393</link>
		<dc:creator>Judith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Job Planet--
Let&#039;s talk!

Judith
Blogger</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Job Planet&#8211;<br />
Let&#8217;s talk!</p>
<p>Judith<br />
Blogger</p>
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		<title>By: TheJobPlanet</title>
		<link>http://www.bloggersforhire.com/blog/2007/02/26/are-professional-bloggers-getting-screwed-time-to-become-a-free-agent/#comment-392</link>
		<dc:creator>TheJobPlanet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>we need someone to blog for our site &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thejobplanet.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;
www.thejobplanet.com&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>we need someone to blog for our site <a href="http://www.thejobplanet.com" rel="nofollow"><br />
</a><a href="http://www.thejobplanet.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.thejobplanet.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: raj</title>
		<link>http://www.bloggersforhire.com/blog/2007/02/26/are-professional-bloggers-getting-screwed-time-to-become-a-free-agent/#comment-391</link>
		<dc:creator>raj</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Jim. It&#039;s great to see these kinds of articles. By the way, after you left a few comments on Performancing, I emailed you (early last week, I think), but haven&#039;t had a response. Just wondering if my email got caught in your spam filter. My gmail account IS having that problem. I hope you get in touch with me as I&#039;d like to apologize about something.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Jim. It&#8217;s great to see these kinds of articles. By the way, after you left a few comments on Performancing, I emailed you (early last week, I think), but haven&#8217;t had a response. Just wondering if my email got caught in your spam filter. My gmail account IS having that problem. I hope you get in touch with me as I&#8217;d like to apologize about something.</p>
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		<title>By: Easton Ellsworth</title>
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		<dc:creator>Easton Ellsworth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice post, Jim.  On a larger level, this thinking applies as well.  Blog networks, blog consulting folks and other people or businesses who have acquired a high level of knowledge concerning blogging need to realize how valuable that knowledge really is!  ... And how fast they need to act because they&#039;re likely only a few months ahead of the curve.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice post, Jim.  On a larger level, this thinking applies as well.  Blog networks, blog consulting folks and other people or businesses who have acquired a high level of knowledge concerning blogging need to realize how valuable that knowledge really is!  &#8230; And how fast they need to act because they&#8217;re likely only a few months ahead of the curve.</p>
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