Generally I get $6 X20 a day from people buying ad space on my blogs which amounts to $3600- all I do is write a 100 word review with some anchortext and get paid. A commision of 40% is payable but when you have a quantity of blogs on your side you could earn a fantastic living from this.

The only downside is that its a boring thing to do – the upside is the boredom only lasts around 2 hours a day.

Research before you talk about the minimum wage – you have no idea what you are talking about.

My audience is approximately ten people and myself, but that’s OK. It is possible to write in public and have no public.. still writing entertains me and there’s no harm in it.

Laura at 11d had an excellent post too,
http://www.apt11d.com/2009/07/the-blogosphere-20.html

One of the funniest conversation I had was with an online Editor – I’d offered to write some short pieces as unpaid work for one the titles my company published, as deadlines were tight and problems kep looming.

Having written them, he suggested that ‘it must have been nice for you to get back to writing’.

I had to remind him that I’d been running two blogs single-handledly and had been managing a daily writing and publishing schedule.

Even if I went back to solidly writing for eight hours every day, I can’t see myself giving up on blogging, simply for the fact it allows me to pick subjects, express myself, and break all the rules of house styles and brand values at any time I like!

Great journalists tell stories and for now, the medium is the story (is it still the message, maybe Macluan was right?), mocking the medium is shooting fish in a barrel. No real original thought here Mr. Philips.

The content of that first post? Probably some middle-of-the-night poetry, the sort of thing I would have scratched on the back of a bar napkin or receipt in those days, the sort of thing I poured into spiral notebooks through high school years, etc.

Yeah, I was one of those.

But suddenly, I had a public place to put it, available for anyone to stumble upon if they should happen by.

It was terrifying, and I forgot about it immediately.

A few years later, getting into media studies and journalism, I found it, spruced it up a bit, and for two or three weeks before I moved on to a hosted WordPress account at one provider or another, that thing I had started in the middle of the night was my blog. I started expressing myself, I found the part of my voice I wanted to get out, I read hundreds of blogs, and when it was starting to work — when I was starting to get a few readers — it wasn’t terrifying anymore.

These days, when students, or journalists, or anyone still new to expressing themselves on the Web asks me, “but have you ever made any money from your blog,” I say yes.

Yes, I have made money from my blog. Expressing myself online has been the key way I’ve made a name for myself in this business — or any business — and the way I’ve met and learned from hundreds of peers, colleagues, and mentors. Three jobs in a row now, the existence of my blog has been a crucial deciding factor — it’s how people know me, know my ideas, know where I think information and communication are headed.

Oh, and the newspaper articles I wrote at the largest paper I ever worked for? They’re in an archive behind a paywall. So, journalists, good luck with those clips. I’ll keep pointing people to my blog.

My personal irony is that I was never able to make it as a freelance writer – I had pitches ignored, pitches refused, and, in one spectacularly lovely moment, a pitch stolen and assigned to one of the editor’s buddies instead. Yet as a PR person, I’ve never once crafted a pitch on behalf of a client that didn’t end up getting mainstream media coverage.