Pam catches a funny part of the whole explosion of the the Jammy folk:

Roger quips: Actually that part of our business has been losing money from the beginning, so the people getting their quarterly checks from PJM were getting a form of stipend from us in the hopes that advertisers would start to cotton to blogs and we could possibly make a profit. Didn't happen. No wonder those people are kicking and screaming now that they are off the dole. I might too. [What's their beef? I thought most of them were free marketeer libertarians or something.-ed. Go figure.]

Dan Responds:
Here's the thing, Roger: you never once told us that the blog network you kept insisting was the next great thing "has been losing money from the beginning" - at least, not to our faces, and certainly not in any way that would suggest that you were carrying us like welfare recipients.
And really, if that was truly the case, why not let us know and offer us a chance out of contracts rather than blow sunshine up our asses? And don't tell me you were keeping us on out of the goodness of your heart, either. Because there's simply no way a big businessman like you would feel the tug of conscience. It's all about the bottom line, after all.

The fact is, Roger, not everyone was given millions of dollars of venture capital to blow through. So before you go comparing people YOU SOLICITED TO JOIN YOUR ORGANIZATION to people taking welfare (you ever try paying a hooker with food stamps?), you might want to think about where it is "your" money is coming from.

There's more at the link. The only semi-serious point I'd make is that if you think blogging is a way to make a living, you're pretty silly. The Blogosphere is a long, long way from being a "business model," and I'm not so sure it ever will become one. There are lots of reasons for that. But fundamentally, I don't think that blogging is compatible with the standard tenents of capitalism. The reason a few (and it is a tiny number) political blogs can support their authors is mainly because those folks got in on the game early enough to build up an audience, and because not a few of them also have paying gigs with traditional SCLM organizations on the side. I'm not speaking about the non-political blogosphere with these points, as I'm ashamed to admit, I almost never go there.