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Its a nice story but not everyone is going to be a self-sufficient blogger. He's an outlier.

It comes in waves.

Few years ago everybody was doing search engine optimization and affiliate marketing. Wave 2 was people publishing e-books on SEO and affiliate marketing. Wave 3 was masses moving in and driving the margins down.

Sounds like professional blogging is on wave 2.

I run a small blog network. There's basically no serious money to be made unless you're in the top percentile. From an advertiser's point of view, ad space inventory is growing faster than their products, so why shouldn't they keep on cutting rates?

I don't understand all this skepticism. Every other success story on HN is about "outliers", whether is about webapp or iphone apps. Just because this guy writes blogs instead of coding everyone is calling bullshit on him?!!

I am not a programmer nor a blogger and I don't see much difference between this guy and most of the stories I read on HN.

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