You're probably got more chance of making with a rock band than with a blog anyway. Come to think of it, I pissed off a few people back in the day when I suggested they were being silly in trying to charge for something - i.e. unresearched, biased opinions - that many people were giving away for free. Given that these were ostensibly fans of the "free market", it seemed weird to me that they'd missed this fatal flaw in their business plan.

Though I admit I did send some cash Kottke's way when he had his drive, because I felt his writing was worth it and kind of admired his cojones in quitting his job to for a year to blog full-time, as silly as that sounds.

Ah well. After having shelved my blog a couple of weeks back, I can honestly say I was never in it for the money. I started it because it seemed like a neat idea. I ended it because it wasn't really that much fun anymore - for me or the readers. (Maybe a few dozen, I'm guessing.)