The idea that everything on the Net is free is still firmly entrenched and people have a natural aversion to paying for a subscription to something they think should be free.

Looking just at the money side of things, I think professional journalism (that is, for a newspaper or magazine) pays vastly more than blogging does. I’ve done freelance writing for various Fairfax publications (Fairfax publishes both The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald) and got paid 50 cents Australian (about 37 US cents) per word. Is there any blogger anywhere in the world making 37 cents a word, apart from Andrew Sullivan?

I’ve always assumed that if you’re a professional journalist you go into pro-blogging for the fun and freedom, but not for the money.

I understand the pain of anyone who wonders why they can’t pay their bills with their Blogs or whatever they love to do, remember the popular saying, “Do What You Love and The Money Will Follow”?

I believe that their has to be a deeper more fulfilling reason for blogging, like Guy Kawasaki says, you have to blog for the right reasons.

NOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo. This was one of the few reasons I subscribe to Thursday’s Age.

I haven’t paid for any web based sites in the past, but maybe I will have to now to keep reading his stuff.