$30,000 a year to blog fulltime -- um, no thanks.

$30,000 USD still sounds big when you’re a new blogger – and in some ways it is. However there are different ways of thinking about that figure. Lets break it down in the way that I used to look at my target.

• $30,000 a year = $576.92 per week
• $30,000 a year = $82.19 a day
• $30,000 a year = $3.42 an hour

via problogger.net

This guy just wrote an article on how people can *ASPIRE* to make $30000 a year blogging.

His inspirational numbers are for someone to work 24 hours a day, for 365 days a year.

BTW, strictly speaking, he isn't wrong. Your blog, once written and properly monetized should make you money all day long, even when you sleep. But you will probably have to work really hard. Most full time bloggers I follow work weekends. Other seems to have fiendish schedules of from morning till 2AM and never-ending schedules.

The other problem is that $30000 is very little money. It's about $13-$15 an hour for most folks with a regular 9-5. This is all without having to take on venture risk, without variable income, and without stress. Also, you don't have to pimp your good name to sell "Really Big Commission Affiliate Products" like training courses or "yearly-memberships" to your blog.

This guy isn't talking about passive income. He is saying that if you work hard full-time on your blog and, in the mean time, keep your day job, and if you find crazy ways to scam money from your readers -- especially your most passionate fans -- you *may* make about the same as a 19 years old assistant manager at McDonald's.

I don't know if everybody has gotten all daffy, or if my generation of tech-savvy writers are just a bunch of idiots.

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I will continue to hate agro-sentimentalists.

Any agro-economist will tell you that urban farming creates jobs. Even without local production, the food industry creates three dollars of job growth for every dollar spent on food—a larger multiplier effect than almost any other product or industry. Farm a city, and that figure jumps over five dollars. To a community with persistent two-digit unemployment, that number is manna. But that’s only one economic advantage of farming a city

via guernicamag.com

That just means that agriculture is labour-intensive.
There was a reason why the Industrial Revolution *LIFTED* people out of poverty.

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Man stuff. Man stuff? What man stuff?

"It's a good turn-on for Jewish girls if you know how to do things—like fix cars or carry things—because chances are our dads didn't know how to do that growing up, which was annoying. Man things, not intellectual things. Because most Jewish girls—we're smart and we're driven, but we don't want to do things like put a couch together. I remember I got all this fancy stuff for my bat mitzvah, like a flat screen TV—all this stuff that my dad could have put together if he was good at anything except for his job. Instead they just sat there. I eventually had to get a boyfriend to come over and put it together."

via details.com

I wonder if some asian girl will one day say the same thing about their Asian fathers.

Hell, what is wrong with not being able to put a couch together?

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Cut This Story! - The Atlantic (January/February 2010)

One reason seekers of news are abandoning print newspapers for the Internet has nothing directly to do with technology. It’s that newspaper articles are too long. On the Internet, news articles get to the point. Newspaper writing, by contrast, is encrusted with conventions that don’t add to your understanding of the news.

via theatlantic.com

Sudden urge to go edit (green) something.

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