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Looking for an easy way to make a quick buck? Take Bethany Keely’s route and make money from blogging. Keely’s “Unnecessary Quotation” blog ears her about $200/month, with a high one month of $500. “I just wanted to have fun,” said Keely when asked why she started her blog. Keely has been posting her personal blog since 2002, but started the “Unnecessary Quotation” blog in 2004. She never imagined that her blog would have grown to be what it is today, which, according to site meter, receives about 4,000 hits on an average weekday. “If someone asked me why I wanted to be famous,” says Keely, “I def wouldn’t have said punctuation.”

Blogs such as Keely’s are becoming more and more popular with this technological society that we live in today. Morgan Josey Glover, content manager for GoGreenTriad.com, examines the differences in blog writing, what she does now, and print writing what she used to do as a reporter for Greenboro News and Record, “I write for a specific audience that is concerned with environmental issues, such as climate change,” said Glover. She said when she was in print media her audiences were much more broad and she had to spend a great deal of time developing a full, lengthy story. Glover said, “I do real time publishing and editing, and in most cases I do all of my editing on my own. This allows me to release information much quicker.”

One things for sure, whether you’re writing a casual blog for entertainment purposes, or blogging for a company about new information, news media has taken a new form by being broadcast to a much more concise audience on the web.