Blogging: We all should be dooced

May 13, 2008
By Billy Dennis

The chick who writes this blog told Nightline that:

  1. She got fired for writing a post about how her boss got Botox treatments and showed up to work with a frozen face.
  2. So, she blogs full time.
  3. She now makes $40,000 a month from advertising revenue.

Sounds like a plan … oops, I don’t have a spouse to pay the bills while I play ad salesman. Sorry.

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12 Responses to “ Blogging: We all should be dooced ”

  1. NewsAnchorMom on May 13, 2008 at 7:21 am

    40-thousand a month? How many people does she get on her site? 80-thousand? That is a crazy amount of money for a blog. Impressive!

  2. NewsAnchorMom on May 13, 2008 at 7:21 am

    40-thousand a month? How many people does she get on her site? 80-thousand? That is a crazy amount of money for a blog. Impressive!

  3. 11Bravo on May 13, 2008 at 8:29 am

    Jen is so flabbergasted she’s speaking in an echo!! :) Really though, 40k is pretty impressive…

  4. gl hoffman on May 13, 2008 at 9:43 am

    Clearly, she made Jen stutter.
    One way to see how much it takes is to look at her technorati ratingshttp://www.technorati.com/search/dooce.com

    She is up in the 4-5,000 range. She must know someone at Al Gore’s secret internet Promotions Group. Still, $40,000 is real money, isn’t it? To me, that says it is not lucky, but she is simply good. Plus I love the name DOOCED.
    GLHOFFMAN

  5. NewsAnchorMom on May 13, 2008 at 2:22 pm

    It was clearly such a great response, I thought you might need to hear it twice. It had nothing to do with my son reaching over my should pressing buttons as I was typing. He would never do that.

  6. NewsAnchorMom on May 13, 2008 at 2:23 pm

    I meant “shoulder.” This is cleary not a good typing day!

  7. Billy Dennis on May 13, 2008 at 2:25 pm

    Jen, you have sunk to a new low: Blaming your errors on your helpless child. Shame!

    ;-)

  8. NewsAnchorMom on May 13, 2008 at 2:36 pm

    And what do you think about the fact that you can’t post comments on Dooce? Could you when she first started the blog? I wonder if she was getting too many to handle… and yes shame on me! He just wanted my attention!

  9. Billy Dennis on May 13, 2008 at 2:52 pm

    I was surprised. But it’s her blog. Actually, without comments, it’s more like a collection of articles on the Web. Commenting — interaction with readers — is what makes it a blog a blog.

    I got the impression from the Nightline piece that she DOES get comments. She might have turned them off temporarily.

    As successful as she is, I doubt she gets as many visitors as, say, Instapundit, which does take comments.

  10. 11Bravo on May 13, 2008 at 3:35 pm

    Seriously Jen, Billy is right. I mean at least he takes the blame for the 1,354 typos he averages in a day! :)

  11. 11Bravo on May 13, 2008 at 3:40 pm

    Not to outscoop you two reporters, but the comments were turned off for that one post only. If you go to the previous post there are a few hundred posts.

  12. NewsAnchorMom on May 13, 2008 at 3:49 pm

    Thanks for taking the time to check Bravo! I thought that seemed strange! Notice there are no typos in this post and it’s 10 minutes until news time! Horray!