bloggers these days

oh so i remembered what i was going to write...

i hate how bloggers get famous and all of a sudden start charging money for things they used to post for free.  i've noticed it recently on a couple blogs i frequently read.  i understand that these bloggers are blogging to make a living, but it's frustrating that the very things that made them popular (and famous) are just becoming one more money making scheme.  i don't know how much sponsorship and advertising brings in, but as far as actual blog content, it seems really...snotty? cheap (in the punch-below-the-belt kind of cheap)?...to stop blogging certain posts and putting them into money-required forms.

sigh.  i guess that's just the reality of the blogging world these days?

there are days i wish i had a thousand followers (or, i should say, a blog actually worthy of having a thousand followers - ha!) but when i see the "business" side take over, i'm glad i'm just a little lowly blog floating around out in cyberspace.

i guess if the original goal of the blog was to eventually be a content-for-purchase venture, it just required "giving it away" to get readers to become readers who would be willing to pay for that content...?  then the free stuff was just a stepping stone to achieving the actual goal?

eh, i dunno.

i'll still read those blogs, but it sort of taints my feelings toward the blogger.  not that it's any loss for them i'm sure, since there are probably hundreds (if not thousands?!) of people who are willing to pay for the same stuff they were getting for free just a year ago, but not me.  yeah, go ahead and call me stingy or selfish or stubborn, it wouldn't be the first time for any of those.  ha!