As a counterpoint to my wild-eyed fantasy of earning money from a blog:
Dan Lyons called himself "Fake Steve Jobs" and wrote a blog that became a sensation among Mac geeks and technophiles.
One month, he had 1.5 million people visit his blog.
That is the month that he earned "a whopping total of $1039.81."
Dan Lyons is not optimistic about the potential of blogs to generate income.