For a while now I've been thinking about developing something that would track down all of my web accounts and create a mushup of all my web activities. Well, before I had a chance to sit down and write something that does just that the good people at Profilactic have beat me to it.

Their interface is quite easy to figure out. Adding accounts is super easy and the entire process took less than 5 minutes. At the end of that I now have a place that puts my web live together into one RSS feed.

To view my feed just to go my feed page or check out my mashup page

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