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title: Meg
date: "2002-08-13T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1241
description: I agree with Meg Hourihan's call for professional blogging, arguing that blogging must eventually commercialize to grow. I also clarify a misattributed Michael Faraday quote regarding the inevitability of taxing new technologies like the telegraph.
keywords: [blogging, meg hourihan, commercialization, michael faraday, weblogs, media history]
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[Meg](http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/08/12/megnut.html) calls for professional blogging. I agree. Like all good things, blogging will have to go commercial, and like Faraday said, "... someday you can tax it." (Note: Actually, Faraday [didn't say it](http://198.64.129.160/quotes/faraday.htm).)