But what about specialized blogs which require some real and actual research before a post gets published? Not that many people are willing to write them on a regular, protracted basis and those who don’t know what they’re talking about get weeded out very quickly so only a few are left. Every once in a while Discover Magazine, Seed Media or Discovery Communications come around and buy off a couple dozen of them, paying the blogger to keep doing what s/he’s doing.

Not everybody can be successful at doing something that is fun, but at least you tried. But you did convince Newsweek to hire you, so maybe you are successful, if N/W wanted a bitter hack to write a tech column, they got it. P.S. could you see if they’re hiring in the waiting for inspiration to come department?