For as long as I can remember, way back before even the world wide web, never mind the blogoshpear; I always thought that I would love to be a columnist for a newspaper. That it would be a great job to write one column a week and get paid some, if not lots, of money for it. Of course there was the small problem of finding a newspaper who wanted to pay an unknown computer geek ( who can’t spell) to express his opinion within their pages.
And that is where blogs come in. Anybody can start a blog and write, mostly, about anything they want. But this leads to two other problems:
Firstly finding people who want to read what you have written.
And secondly if like me you want to make a living writing, there is that small problem of finding a way to make money. In the real world the $11.43 I made on-line from Adsense last month did not contribute significantly towards my mortgage repayment.
In an ideal world blogging would be an ideal job. Now all I have to do is find a way of moving from the real world, through the on-line world and into an ideal world.