I’m an admittedly small blogger. I have a thousand or so readers of my daily livejournal blog, a kind of a personal look at my life that includes stories about my job, my kids, and my own stupidity. I have a hundred readers of a writing blog I maintain, and a couple hundred readers of a circus blog I started several years ago. I’m the definition of a small blogger.
I’d love to make a little (okay, a lot of) money on my blogging, but up until now, that really hasn’t been an option. I tried the usual adsense track, but that earned me about thirteen cents in a year, so that’s not a way to go.
But by next year, small bloggers like me just may have a way to monetize our blogs (small podcasters too). Larry Genkin, the founder and editor of Blogger and Podcaster Magazine, has opened a new site intended to help small bloggers turn their hobby into a more lucrative business. I’m skeptical but interested, and signed up. The site is accepting signups, but will not go live until early 2009. The site is the Blogger and Podcaster Network.