This morning Tech Crunch pointed to an article in Press Gazette which revealed what The Guardian actually paid for Content Next Media, parent company of the pioneering business blog PaidContent.org:

Accounts filed by Guardian News and Media reveal that the company paid £4m for website PaidContent in 2008 – rather than the £15m ($30m) which has previously been reported. continue reading...

Yes, this is a stretch, but you have to wonder:

By launching a tracking index of media companies, called the ContentNext Media Index, is Paid Content getting one step closer to becoming the Dow Jones of the 21st century? continue reading...

With the announcement that GigaOm was hiring a COO, raising more money, I think it’s safe to say that 2007 will mark both the end and new beginning of blogs… as business. 

Clearly, the number of blogs in high tech alone is numbing: Rafat Ali, Michael Arrington, Om Malik have clearly been joined by others in trying to usurp market share in tech reporting.   continue reading...