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By Richard Whittall A More Splendid Life

How to be a successful soccer writer on the Internet*
I’ve spent the morning reading a few bookmarked articles on the AOL/Huffington Post takeover in the New York Times, specifically on whether the Huffington Post makes its money “on the backs” of unpaid bloggers. If you believe the answer is “yes,” I’d recommend reading through Nate Silver’s HuffPo page-view breakdown from last week. After some expert speculative number-crunching, the conclusion Silver reaches seems beyond obvious to me: if you choose to write for a massive web-hub like the Huffington Post, rather than taking the time to start-up your own blog with one of countless blog publishing software platforms available on the web, don’t be surprised if you end up posting a lot of stuff that never gets read, paid for, or leads anywhere except more ignored articles on HuffPo.

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