Tom Coates says at plasticbag (four days ago but I swear I just saw it), of this same Shirky piece:
There’s only one line I don’t agree with – “the people who have profited most from weblogs are the people who’ve written books about weblogging”. In fact I suspect these people have made almost no money at all, unless they’ve been added to University book-lists. More likely, the people who’ve made money are freelance web-savvy journalists publishing for mainstream press…
(via Hylton Jolliffe)