Unsound

Photo by Caroline Methot
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I think there are really two honest ways of looking at this kind of project: you can look at it as a job, or you can look at it as a relationship (unless these aren't two different things).

If it's a job, then you have to be compensated; maybe people stop blogging because they no longer feel like they're getting paid enough (usually nothing, unless asked-for attention counts), or because they realize they won't ever be paid enough to keep the work going.

Or if it's a relationship, then it gradually becomes one-sided; people who blog get to feel that they're putting more into it than they're getting out, and they get bored, and they get tired.

My question remains: how does one fix this?