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In “Jealousy Isn’t Always An Ugly Emotion | BlogHer” <\/a>BlogHer contributing editor Rita Arens<\/a> writes about some of the jealousy she sees cropping up in the blogosphere, in particular among her fellow “mommy bloggers” or at least female bloggers.<\/p>\n

In particular, I was struck by people’s jealousy of “famous bloggers.” Arens describes (incredibly well and demonstrating an incredibly healthy psyche) her reaction to an email that asked how she and other big-time BlogHers could go on writing “as if they were normal people” when so clearly they weren’t – there were celebrities! The emailer writes<\/p>\n

if someone\u2019s blog became popular or famous because they were writing about their “normal” or “mundane” life, how do they continue to make money off of their blog when their life is certainly nothing like it was when the blog first became famous?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Regarding this email, Arens comments (again, verrry verry healthy woman here, not a trace o snarkery):<\/p>\n

I sort of understood that the blogger was just putting out there into the public sphere what so many of us feel when we’re new to something. Oh, look — there are already people entrenched in this space that I love so much. Can I ever be where they are?<\/p>\n

The problem is that we don’t even know where they are, how much traffic they have, if they earn money. We just don’t really know. And this blogger wanted to know. And she maybe even realized why.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n