Business World: Earning Money through Blogs

Kind of an interesting piece, a creditable job of trying to cover a big global subject in a relatively short business journal article. However, it gave me a bit of a shock to find that she described Darren Rowse (ProBlogger.net) as “US-based”. Darren is a born and bred Aussie, liivng in Melbourne with his wife “V” and new-born son “X” (Xavier) in the “house that Google bought”… one of Darren’s more successful blog stories where he described how after several years as a paid minister in his church and other part-time work, he and V were able to buy a small house with their income from AdSense. All this is common knowledge and/or available right off Darren’s “about” pages. I’m sure Darren will be a bit amazed that he’s been transformed overnight into a Yank ;-) (or are all us Caucasians really Kanos? LoL)

There’s actually a very good story there for someone who wanted to write it (blog it)… why the relatively recent phenomena of ProBlogging is so central to Australia. Several big blog networks developed from and/or are headquartered in Oz and a number of “celebrity bloggers” are Australian.

The link to your article is free.

You are, of course, correct, Sir Abe.

I’ll be Joe, you be Juan de la Cruz ;-)

Thanks for the heads-up, Abe. I didn’t know about this article. I don’t remember granting an interview. I only heard it from my sis yesterday. My family in Manila couldn’t find a copy as of yet, as we weren’t watching out for it. I was hoping to read a copy online at least. Oh, and by the way, the link to BW seems to be down.

Interesting comment from Dave Starr, about ProBlogging being linked to Australia. I never really thought of it that way because I see so many probloggers from all over the world. Having said that, b5media.com is 75% Aussie-owned even if we’re based in Canada.

Ahhh… maybe that’s why Darren was attributed as being North American. :-)

nothing surprising about the P30K. i know a few pinoy bloggers earning much more than that, and from just one blog at that.

for us based in europe (or for those in the US), $500 to 600 is not much, actually. those of you in pinas have much more buying power, i guess…