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UR Blog Sux and Print is Dead

Event SXSW Interactive 2009
Format Panel
Organizer Kerry Miller Passiveaggressivenotes.com/Stuff White People Like
Description How to make the most of your blog's "overnight success" (get a book deal! quit your day job!) without letting anonymous commenters make you hate yourself in the process.
Questions
Answered
  1. My blog got linked to on BoingBoing and Gawker and made the front page of Digg. Now what?
  2. How does a blog become an "overnight success"?
  3. How do I turn my blog into a book? Do I even want to? Isn't the whole "blogger book" thing like, so over?
  4. How do I develop my blog into a "community"? What does that even mean?
  5. Why are anonymous commenters does @$$holes? On the web, is all press really good press?
  6. What do you do when your blog's commenters turn on you?
  7. What's the best way to respond to indirect criticism online?
  8. How do you make money of your blog without (gasp) selling out?
  9. Is it sketchy to make a profit off of user-generated content?
  10. My blog is awesome. Why isn't anybody reading it?
Panelists Ben Huh (benhuh.com), Christian Lander (Stuff White People Like), Kerry Miller (Passiveaggressivenotes.com)
Level Intermediate
Category Community / Social Networks