Blogopoly

Blogging can not only help you in your job-search, it can become your new job in itself. Is there much difference between a blogger and a journalist? Not really. The Blogger Forum Blog reports on the story of Simon Willion, whose blog was noticed by SitePoint as a being a great source of information on web development topics and was hired for "a boatload of money" to blog for them. As blogs become more popular as a mainstream publishing format for the web, and more and more big time blog sites such as Marketing Wonk or slashdot.org are created, bloggers will have a great chance to launch a new journalistic career, with these bigger blogs becoming launch pads to more establishment sites.