Dave Morin

Seth Godin dropped a post last week about a site called autoblogger.net. The site is a technology spoof on a service which would essentially write your blogs for you. So, in times when you hit bloggers block, autoblogger can generate content for you. It’ll even generate fake photoblog travel content. Cool.

The reason I post has more to do with the comment Seth made about the fact that blogging hasn’t turned into a job yet. Now, you can refer to many of the “bloggers” out there reporting for MSNBC, or the Drudge Report, or many other blog news sources. They’ve turned it into a job. Right? Yes, I suppose they have. But, they essentially took the genuis content delivery system of blogging and turned it into a news source.

I am here to tell you about my buddy Tyler, who having been a prolific blogger for a few years (we started blogging around the same time), has now been snatched up by a brand new company called LexBlog.

LexBlog builds websites for law firms. Not just plain vanilla websites, but blogs for law firms. When you sign up with LexBlog, they build a site for your firm, and give you various options as to how often you want your content updated, what you want that content to look like, and what specific subject matter your firm is into. Essentially turning the portal to your law firm into a fantastic lawresource for all of your clients.

Tyler was found through his blog. Now he’s paid to research subject matter and write content for various law blogs around the country. Let me repeat: found through his blog, now paid to blog.

I never thought his pleads of “please give me a job” through his own blog would in turn land him a job doing what he loves: writing. Awesome.

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