Thomas O’Leary says, “I was on a WordPress blog w/ 350K visits a month and making $150 per week.” Back when I was doing the widely-read Portland Communique, which ran from 2002 to 2005, I never made anything like that from reader contributions. There was no advertising on Communique, except, I think, for a brief period attempting to roll-my-own. It’s the only blogging effort of mine that should have been “monetizable” but never got there.
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- Meanwhile, I notice O’Leary’s post was taken as a cue once again to complain about the lesser hordes (they don’t appear to consider O’Leary part of that, to be clear) having access to the web.