While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.

Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.

Critics say Internet advertising suffers from limitless inventory, which depresses prices. These exclusive front-page sponsorships are not limitless. If HBO doesn't move quickly enough, Showtime can buy out Gawker and Jezebel for the key fall TV season. On any individual day, there isn't room for both of them; and that's healthy.

Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.

No picture, no footage, no story. The people these days require some visual evidence in order to believe what they read.

Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.

Forget about someone's resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn't lie.