MacRumors’ Arnold Kim profiled in New York Times
Monday, July 21, 2008 - 11:12 AM EDT "For eight years, Arnold Kim has been trading gossip, rumor and facts about Apple, the notoriously secretive computer company, on his Web site, MacRumors.com," Brian Stelter reports for The New York Times.MacDailyNews Note: MacRumors is featured in the left hand column of all pages of MacDailyNews and iPodDailyNews where you can always find MacRumors' five most-recent headlines (you can also click on the red "MacRumors" text to visit the site's home page).
"It had been a hobby — albeit a time-consuming one — while Dr. Kim earned his medical degree. He kept at it as he completed his medical training and began diagnosing patients’ kidney problems. Dr. Kim’s Web site now attracts more than 4.4 million people and 40 million page views a month, according to Quantcast, making it one of the most popular technology Web sites," Stelter reports.
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"It is enough to make Dr. Kim hang up his stethoscope. This month he stopped practicing medicine and started blogging full time," Stelter reports.
"Dr. Kim epitomizes the home-grown publishers whose wealth has been enabled by the Internet. Although few of the millions of blogs ever make their creators rich, the ones that do provide all the incentive necessary to fuel the medium," Stelter reports.
"Dr. Kim is not a millionaire blogger yet, and given the slumping online advertising market, he faces some hurdles as he expands the site. But he has reason to be optimistic," Stelter reports. "Stepping away from medicine felt somewhat strange, he admits. Dr. Kim was bringing home a six-figure income as a doctor, but he recognized that blogging was becoming more lucrative. He says the site also yields a six-figure income for him."
Stelter reports, "Still, he hesitated to make it a full-time job because he enjoyed medicine — and he had invested almost $200,000 in his education. But he finally concluded that “on paper, it was an easy decision.” He also had a practical reason for wanting the ability to work from home. Her name is Penelope, and she is 14 months old."
More in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers "Sir Gill Bates" and "Ralph M" for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: Congrats, arn!

Grats Arn!