Sheila McClear: You can freeblog for fun but don’t spend too much time on it – real adults get paid.
Nick Douglas: Bollocks. Got my Gawker job by writing at Blogebrity for free. Got my book deal by using Twitter for free. Might get a job somewhere soon for using their site for free — though that’s different, I’m literally building that site’s value with my content, along with the content of another million people.