Economics of Blogging

ProfessorBainbridge blogs Larry Ribstein offers a typically interesting series of posts on the economics of blogging, which starts here. The subsequent post on, inter alia, why people blog is particularly provocative.

I highly recommend all bloggers, and potential bloggers, read Larry's posts on The law and economics of blogging on Ideoblog, whose motto is "A blog about ideas. Ideas are not beliefs or opinions":

• Introduction
  
• The technology of blogging
• The economics of blogging
• Are bloggers journalists
• Application of the election laws
• Copyright and fair use
• Media ownership restrictions
• Defamation law
• Licensing laws
• Vicarious liability of co-bloggers
• Other business organization issues

It is not a part of the above mentioned series, but I recommend you also read McCain-Feingold and bloggers