02.09.05
Asbestos News
Blogger Michael Buffington has begun an experiment: he’s created a blog called Asbestos News on which he aggregates any asbestos-related news items, which he finds via the Alert feature in Google News. Then he sells Google TextAds at $15-100 per click. He’s not particularly interested in or knowledgeable about asbestos, though he’s learning.
I suspect that if Asbestos News does well, I’ll probably try to find another hotbed topic to blog on, and will continue to spawn what I’ll call, with trepidation, “topical news aggregator blogs” until the concept stops working.
I already take a much more personal approach with digitalslr.org and as far as advertising revenue goes it does fairly well compared to my original expectations. If I can emulate its success while doing less to get there, that’s what I call a good thing.
Damn, that’s a good idea. Now I’m wondering if I should do the same. Any subject ideas? What else is hot these days?
