Rise of the Professional Blogger

Victor Cheng writes "Robert Scoble today points to a blogger who is claiming he earns between $10,000 and $20,000 per month via Google Adsense." From the article: "The cheque was the biggest cheque I've ever held onto (well the biggest I've held onto that has my name on it). The amazing thing is that in the month of May I earned more than I earned in a whole year in 2003 from a 'real job' (of course at the time I was only working a 3 day week while I studied part time) and well over half as much as I earned from Adsense in the whole of 2004."

Comments

According to Maddox:

[millennial]

Blogging: If minds had anuses, blogging would be what your mind would do when it had to take a dump.
<maddox>

Re:On logging webs.

[maxpublic]

Count me in as scratching my head. I've checked out a good number of the popular "blogs" (stupid fucking word - you'd think geeks could come up with something better than that) and fail to see the attraction. Most of them devolve to nothing more than intellectual masturbation, along with a liberal dose verbal vomit on why the blogger's opinion is so much more important than anyone elses concerning the topic at hand. They're very much like Slashdot posts, eternally modded to 5 because you don't get the chance to slam them into oblivion.

Hmmm...y'know, that isn't a bad analogy. Bloggers as former Slashdot posters who got tired of being modded down.

Max