But in all honestly, only a day or two ago I thought to myself that Shoe and John’s blogs are on the decline quality wise. I continue to read daily though on the chance that today is a day they drop a golden nugget.

When your blog reaches a critical mass of subscribers, it is no longer acceptable to the hordes of readers to talk about the same topics, or pump out lower quality posts, so i’d disagree with Steven in #23.

Rants about the quality of a particular bloggers work just signal to me that they are no longer serving their customers as greatly as they did at the beginning.

The great thing about the Internet is that the culture and business models are always evoloving, so it’s unlikely that bloggers will EVER run out of “trade secrets” as many of the markets haven’t even been created yet!

This has got to be the billionth rant on the same redundant topic circulating around the blogosphere, and to think that readers still expect the “elite” bloggers to pump out a certain topic consistently is an unreal expectation. A book can only be so big before it runs out of information to feed. Books of the same topic can only reword things so many time. A blog is no more than a metaphoric online book with each post adding new pages towards the final ending. Eventually, these guru will run out of “trade secrets” you’re looking for and you’ll have to dig up new secrets elsewhere.

That aside, you should read their blog because you like the overall blog, not just because you want to learn the secrets to making it big. Unfortunately if that’s all you’re there for, I am sure you’ll continue to be disappointed in the future.

Once you achieve a certain status in a profession, you’re given the ability to move on into other avenues beyond the job that originally got you to the top. This happens in almost every profession, so it is not blog-specific. Look at Michael Jordan. Even though he retired three times and kept coming back to the NBA, he still oversaw his Jordan brand clothing, and formerly managed the Washington Wizards. He branched out into over avenues aside from basketball because he knew his status as the world’s best current basketball WOULD NOT LAST FOREVER.

There is also this. At some point there is only so much one can write about any one subject by any one blogger before it starts to get a little stale. In book publishing Stephen King can write a bestseller every year and that’s fine, but for blogging it’s infinitely harder to maintain high traffic levels if you’re pumping out the same type of stuff year after year.

There’s plenty of great stuff out there. If the A-listers aren’t saying it, someone else as yet unknown probably is, and perhaps saying it better. Simple as that.

You will even find convenient links to the widget throughout the article, that make it so much easier for you to go to the site and find out more information, or better still sign up for yourself. What you will not see, or read however, is the fact that the blogger bringing you this latest information on the service has previously been contacted and already signed up for affiliate marketing or some other revenue sharing model.

Now most of people will know this for what it is, but many new to blogging will not. I think they are being fed recycled rubbish with no other intent then to boost the A-list bloggers revenue.

A lot of this has to do with the power these sites yield and in many cases I think they abuse it.

Everyone likes to post about things they dont like and vent.. lets not forget your recent anger at:

1) Daring for not shipping your PS3
2) Fatman unleased
3) The new owners of cashquests