<![CDATA[Henry Copeland vs. Jason Calacanis, $10K to $100K - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Henry Copeland vs. Jason Calacanis, $10K to $100K - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Henry Copeland vs. Jason Calacanis, $10K to $100K]]> everyone should be happy that so much money can be made on such bad writing. (with the exception of our hosts!) this is the beauty of capitalism.

shakespeare meet monkey. monkey meet shakespeare.

ming666

]]> <![CDATA[Henry Copeland vs. Jason Calacanis, $10K to $100K]]> As I posted on my own blog, I think the matter of how Weblogs, Inc benefits bloggers as a whole is a bit more complex than a simple monetary transaction between advertiser and publisher with an agency (BlogAds in this case) in the middle. When Engadget, or Joystiq, or Cinematical, or Slashfood, or whoever links to me, I make money the day they link because more people see my ads. I keep making money for many days to come because I continue to get referral traffic from the site. I also get bumped up in the search engines on whatever the topic I posted on happened to be. And there are probably benefits that haven't occurred to me. I'm sure I'm not alone in this indirect benefit from a Weblogs, Inc link. BlogAds only makes me as much money as the inventory they are able to sell, which in my experience is something less than 5% of my annual blogging income. Replace Weblogs, Inc with Gawker in what I said and I think the argument still holds up. The reach of both blog networks have a far greater impact (and likely help Henry's bottom line) than any single ad agency because all the ad revenue is driven by eyeballs.

Jake Ludington

]]> <![CDATA[Henry Copeland vs. Jason Calacanis, $10K to $100K]]> @chris m:

Better yet, put them head to head at monetizing chess boxing blogging? Talk about niche.

ROIpositive

]]> <![CDATA[Henry Copeland vs. Jason Calacanis, $10K to $100K]]> May I suggest chess boxing?

chris m

]]> <![CDATA[Henry Copeland vs. Jason Calacanis, $10K to $100K]]> It's a very silly bet... Weblogs, Inc. is a publisher with 200 or so well-paid bloggers and Blogads is an advertising rep firm that doesn't own any IP. You really can't compare them, and I can't even if I wanted to because it's not my company any more.

Now, when I was running Weblogs, Inc. it did pay out millions to bloggers each year and we reached the $10-15 a post baseline on all the blogs. So, folks got paid well... but we weren't trying to represent 1,000 blogs or anything.

If Henry really wants to get into it we should play horseshoes, Doom II, or have a Web 2.0 boxing event. For charity of course :-)

JasonCalacanis

]]> <![CDATA[Henry Copeland vs. Jason Calacanis, $10K to $100K]]> soft doughy white guys sure are funny. i say one-on-one down at the beach and then winner buys chicken 'n waffles at Roscoes. booooy!

ming666

]]> <![CDATA[Henry Copeland vs. Jason Calacanis, $10K to $100K]]> My money is on Jason.

JamesBruni

]]> <![CDATA[Henry Copeland vs. Jason Calacanis, $10K to $100K]]> "BlogAds earned more for bloggers than did WIN" --- of course - this cant be denied because BlogAds like google ads is feeding many more bloggers than just WIN employees.

Comic Strip Blogger

]]> <![CDATA[Henry Copeland vs. Jason Calacanis, $10K to $100K]]> Wow ownage, almost any way it turns out Copeland wins the points here, unless Jason accepts and wins!

Rick

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