WE'VE GOT TO RECONSIDER OUR BUSINESS MODEL....:

Ad money begins to trickle in for bloggers (Candice Choi, 12/26/07, The Associated Press)

Zach Brooks pocketed $1,000 this month blogging about the cheap lunches he discovers around midtown Manhattan ($10 or less, preferably greasy, and if he is lucky, served from a truck).

The site, Midtownlunch.com, is just 18 months old and gets only about 2,000 readers daily, but it is already earning him enough each month for a weekend trip to the Caribbean - or in his case, more fat-filled culinary escapades in the city.

In the vast and varied world of blogging, Brooks is far from alone.

It is no longer unusual for blogs with just a couple thousand daily readers to earn nearly as many dollars a month. Helping fill the pockets of such bloggers are programs like Google's AdSense and many others that let individuals - not just major publications - tap into the rapidly growing pot of advertising dollars with a click of the mouse.

Found a thing on the web one time that values this blog at close to $150k, but we can't find anyone to buy it....

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 26, 2007 8:59 AM