If I were in business, instead of retired, I would eagerly pursue strategies for
“growing” my blog.  If someone wanted to ‘do it” i.e. market it for me and split the profits,  maybe I’d be willing to pay more attention to the blog. Could this work as a business model?

Right now Princeton Comment is just a public service, a way to capture a moment (a speaker, a thought) for posterity. And when something comes up that I have written about before, it is a way to scratch that itch. There needs to be a 12 step program for retired journalists.