You brought up many points that I haven’t thought of, and I ‘major’ in teaching teens business. The eternal nature of a blog is a big responsibility for anyone, but I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve changed quite a bit since I was a teenager (I’m 29 + 24…), and definitely wouldn’t want some of my (70’s show-ish) opinions following me around.

Will be sending my readers your way …thanks!

The first time I was almost “addicted” but I’m managing my time much better now.

Send me your thoughts (which I will use in my article) – thanks

Also, I’ve translated this article and add some of mine in Chinese. Can’t find a trackback link so here you are:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/feng.hong/cn/?p=275

Yes, there are various other advertising networks, I have heard about Blog Ad’s recently although I can’t vouch for it’s quality yet.

I’m considering bringing up blogging with my parents soon, telling them i’d like to start one and see what they think, there’s one thing I think they might worry about is the legal issues but I’m not sure, how can I talk them round this if they bring it up?

Costs shouldn’t be a problem, a years hosting and domain for a starting blog shouldn’t come above £30-£40. Design is an issue and i’ve got no idea what people charge for blog designing! This might bring it up a bit but I could proberbly do with starting to learn enough CSS to code themes for things like this anyway so it might be a D.I.Y weekend blogwise.

Looks like Darren has beat me to the topic I planned to do! I’d been thinking of it for ages, I guess now is the time to stop procrastinating. I’ve got another topic up my sleeve though!

Still got to work out taxes although I would proberbly focus on building content, design and readers for 3 to 6 months, it’s pointless having a site coated with advertisments if it would only make me a little. I don’t surpose anyone can tell me how a child can register for income tax and how old they have to be

That last paragraph…reminded me of the day, when somehow, my principal found out about my suicide note i made when i was really depressed from when my girlfriend of 2 years left me, and i was so suicidal that day, but then he found out. called my parents…had to go to this psychiatric center and stay there for 24/7 for no reason and missed school for a week.

I wish i read this sooner before I did that. But yea, are there any other websites like AdSense that they pay you for advertising ads?

Now that I’ve restarted it with the purpose of just writing to write and not caring so much about readership. Oddly enough, in the week or so it’s been up since that reboot of sorts, it’s done much better comparative to the first week in June. And I have an offer for something that I think could turn out well, though it’s still in the planning stages and I’m supposed to be closed-lipped about it.

You’re always told that things start opening up when you stop caring so much…but you never really believe it until it happens.

And though my readership isn’t huge, it’s a good improvement from what it was and I see a lot more potential for it as long as I continue to be myself.

Of course, I have boundaries. I don’t gossip about people because that’s pointless (not to mention restricts readership)…that’s mainly it. I try to keep it positive. When I am negative, it’s usually in regards to politics.

I’m really hopeful for 2006…I think that it could be a very rewarding year that might eventually give me a jumpstart for college fall of ‘07.

Thanks for this post, Darren.

They listen up at school to find what’s hot, what kids are talking about etc. and we go from there.

I’ve set up a channel under my own google account so we can monitor what they make. We keep a spreadsheet on how much each of them do and factor out pay from there.

It’s really been a fun project for us and though it’s still in the brainchild stages, we have a working model that seems to work well for now.

We’re looking on expanding into various niche topics over the next several months, but I like the change it’s stirred in them so far.

The internet is a great way for teenager to earn some pocket money.. or even more. For the more experienced ones it is possible to make a huge living, anywhere from high five figures to low-mid six figures a year.

For the moment blogging is hot, but you shouldn’t totally focus on blogging. There are other things besides blogging and actually most of Darren’s (and also other people’s) blogs aren’t really blogs but some sort of news sites.

Another VERY important thing for people that want to earn money on the internet is that fraud can not be tolerated. It is possible to gain a few quick dollars with click fraud but it WILL get you banned.