Snark into gold
When I went to Webzine 2005 a couple of months ago, I was giving this blog rather a lot of thought. I only had the vaguest idea of what I wanted to do with it- my thoughts were pretty much limited to wanting to take all my incredulous ranting and turn it into something at least moderately helpful for others.
After reading a number of other recruiting blogs around the intarweb, I was reluctantly coming to the conclusion that I was going to have to clean up my act, use more professional language, and lessen the snark if I wanted to make anything of my little sandbox.
But you see, at Webzine, I met Philip “Pud” Kaplan, currently of Adbrite, and creator of Mobog and FuckedCompany, the latter of which was one of my favorite sites when I was being dotcommed.
You see, Pud is my hero. If I recall correctly, at it’s peak, FC was making approximately $90,000/month, while companies all around it were tanking. All this off the efforts of one guy, who was adamantly snarky and posted entries which involved phrases like “rock out with your cock out” on a regular basis. According to Pud, Mobog is just a hobby site of his that makes $3000/month.
It’s not that I really intend to make money off the Magic Pot of Jobs. Making back my hosting costs would be nice, but not necessary. But my point is, if a guy like Pud can turn his snark into gold, there’s no reason I have to go all straightlaced to turn my little site into something bigger than I originally planned.