* no doubt sales of individual sites are down, but the industry is growing in gross revenue. the top level aggregates are making lots of money by having hundreds of properties all making a few bucks a day.
* nubie webmasters can still get rich if they have some new ideas. the problem is that the old ideas (tgp, links, trades, even tubes) dont make you rich anymore. i've had more sales lately with social video postings than with tgp/mgp posts. shows me that customer influence is moving out of our realm of influence.
* i spend a lot of time trying to figure out the next new thing, LIKE we all did in 2003/2004 and the wave before in 1999/2000. now we gotta try to figure out where the 2010/2011 wave of cash will come from. there will be a way. always is.
* there's something to the long tail, although it takes more than multiplying eyeballs to make money on the web today. you have to have public opinion on your side too.
