The idea of blogging your way to riches has been an urban legend for the most part; the few who do well are accomplished business people who are working at it with real dedication, treating their blog writing and maintaining their sites as seriously as working at any other kind of job. Writing a blog regularly (as regularly as clocking into a 9-to-5 job) is hard work. On the other hand, true, there are countless blogs that are started and left untouched after just a few months of sporadic entries, or perhaps after a year or two, when inspiration runs out. Many businesses run through a cycle where the owners cannot infuse more time/capital/interest to keep it alive, and the business must close.

The blogging concept will probably hang around for a long time, just as the personal journal, memoir and essay collection (the older, print-based version of blogging) has been around and also will probably hang around as long as people are interested in watching other people’s stories unfold over time.
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Thanks a lot for the encouragement. We’ve only been blogging for a couple of months but are building up a steady and slowly improving reader base. It’s good to know that we might continue to do so.

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Still, I know people who do 90% of their stuff via computer and Blackberry. More and more people are going that way. I don’t even read paper books that often anymore.

How about paper being obsolete? Remember when we all started getting computers, and the big thing was that we’d all have paperless offices? How’s that working out?

I don’t pay much attention to people who make grand proclamations without the evidence to back ‘em up.

Those stories from the 90’s – about kids making millions from their bedroom certainly created a huge perception problem.

Thanks for the comment Stephen!

All of the blogging success stories, the apocryphal “17-year old kid that made a million bucks”, made blogging look like an easy path to financial success. The problem with this idea is the same as any other get-rich-quick scheme: it only works very rarely – and it takes a *lot* of work.

People say books are dead too. Tell that to Seth Godin ( http:/bigbucksinternetmarketing.com/members/unleashing-the-ideavirus/ ), who, by the way, works very hard.

Which, I suppose is the key to the entire concept, it takes work to make things happen.