I was reading a couple of articles today about people who do blogging for a living and get paid for it. It started with this article on the Wall Street Journal at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124026415808636575.html that talked about bloggers for hire as a new profession.
I then read other articles such as from the Business Insider at http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-us-now-has-more-paid-bloggers-than-lawyers-2009-4 which implied there are now almost as much paid bloggers as lawyers in the use.
The statistics seemed so questionable to me. For example, what exactly did they define as a paid blogger? It sounded like the figures included anyone and everyone even if they made only say $1. As well, implying that a blogger needs about 100,000 unique visitors to earn about $75K seems extremely skewed around people who specifically focus on getting paid to blog and are very successful at it.
It is kind of interesting though if a blogger is being hired for companies in a more mainstream fashion. While again I emphasize that those numbers should be taken with a huge grain of salt, if you really want to do something on the side to possibly earn an income then blogging can be a great thing to get into.
Especially if you are someone who is out of work, I suppose if it is becoming more mainstream in a professional sense then it can be a great skill to obtain as well. Great way to possibly diversify yourself.