Jeff Opdyke
What is the difference between a writer like Jeff Opdyke or Jonathon Clements (for the WSJ) and other writers who choose to blog?
I think the biggest difference is: we still have day jobs. It’s easy to see this difference because they (at least Clements) has research, references, and interviews to back up his entries. Also Clements often writes more technically than bloggers.
Maybe the question is: what is the difference between Jeff Opdyke and a blogger. Honestly, I can’t figure it out. The only difference I can see is that he is employed as a writer, we are not. With his most recent titles: “You’ll play baseball and like it,” “Before ‘I do’…Don’t Do This,” and “How to Haggle for that Ride” it seems as if he’s just a blogger in corporate clothes. (By the way I didn’t stop that list because I got to an interesting story; I’m stopping because I have a day job and don’t have the time to continue.)
My wife and I used to religiously read the “Sunday Journal” but it soon became a waste of time because we ended up spending the whole time criticizing Opdyke’s empty entry.
Recently, the Journal ran an article criticizing blogs and posed the question whether blogs were a legitimate way to make money in the long run. I don’t know the answer to their question because it’s much too early to know the future of the blog. The question I do have is: what is the future of their own blogger?
