Since it is causing quite a stir in the German blogoscene, I thought some people on HN might care: Robert Basic who writes http://www.basicthinking.de/blog/ which is one of the most popular german blogs plans to sell off said blog. It could be described as a kind of Techcrunch as it often covers Startups and new Tech developments, albeit from a personal perspective. Plus it is mostly a one man show, which makes selling it a bit weird. Most expect that somebody could buy it to exploit the page rank. Estimates range from 10000€ to > 100000€ for sales price.Revenue from ads last year was about 37000€, apparently.
Also noteworthy maybe that the blog even ranks in the top 100 of most up to date blogs as determined by the CASCADES project: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jure/blogs/blogs-uc-pa.html
Update: according to his blog, it is probably THE most popular german blog:
- Technorati: Authority 1.331, 8.520 Blog reactions
- Deutsche Blogcharts: No.1.
- Rivva Leitmedien-Ranking: No. 3. (nach Spon und Heise)
- Wikio Europe Ranking: No. 1