Prometheus 6

Many Started Web Logs for Fun, but Bloggers Need Money, Too
By JULIE FLAHERTY

Published: April 19, 2004

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 18 - "This is my claim to fame," Ned Batchelder said as he held up a small cube of off-white paper. It all began on his Web log, or blog, last June, when he described how to make boxes out of business cards.

While not a particularly fascinating bit of origami, the trick has become a tiny source of income. Thanks to references and links to the card cubes on other Web logs, the visitors to that page of his blog bring him about $2 a day in ad revenue.

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Hey, don't laugh…$2 is more than I've earned in Amazon.com fees over the entire existance of the blog.