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Blog to TV Pilot? From $0 to $$150,000 to $$$

The Law Librarian Blog has a post about blogging as ?scholarship?, but the eye-opening news is at the end of the blog post. I?m not sure if I?m more astounded at a blogger (of SCOTUS Blog) spending (assuming this is correct) $150,000 on his blog (though perhaps I should be surprised at the paltry sum spent given the quality and substance of the blog) or am more tickled by a blogger and his blog being translated into a TV show, which will cost (and pay) way more than that $150,000, so I?m sure no one is complaining:

"Blogging as Thinking Out Loud Sometimes"

Excerpt: ??Or how does one turn blogging into a TV pilot? The Washingtonian is reporting that NBC is developing a TV series based on the life of SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein. A partner at Akin Gump who has argued 21 Supreme Court cases, Goldstein spends about $150,000 a year of his own money to fund the excellent and rarely off topic SCOTUSblog?.? (read full LLB post)

Full post as published by Oregon Legal Research on December 29, 2009 (boomark / email).