I wanted to conduct a little experiment. I went on google and typed "how to make money using blogs". Number of results returned 226,000,000!

That is one big number. It would appear that blogging is a sure way to make money! Of course that is not the case since I would say 99.8% of all blogs are useless (like this one for example). By useless I mean "not capable of making money from". I'm sure they are useful as an exercise in creative expression, and it is 2007, everyone needs a blog.

The few blogs that do make money (far less than 226,000,000!) are usually run by people who are well known in their respective circles. They are often full time blogs. People read them not necessarily because of the content. They are celebrities among the blog world, and we live in a celebrity, hype driven society!

So here is my list of things to do to make your blog profitable

1. Become an expert in your field with celebrity status!
2. Start a blog

Datura Garden is back and alive again. It took me over a year to regain interest in doing something with this domain. I am now re-incarnating it as a blog about the web.

Learning about the web is one of my big passions, I hope that in this blog I will be able to share some of the things I know.

Blog Platform

I've decided to use the blog engine as a platform for this website. It is super simple to use, it comes with source code, so if I need to grow this site I can easily add or change things around (something that is very important to me).

A great thing about using already done platform and not starting one from scratch, as I always tend to do, is that I can focus more of my time on actually posting useful content.