Blogging Pays

The San Francisco Chronicle has an interesting piece on how blogs are increasingly becoming moneymakers for some willing to accept advertising. This trend, ironically, speaks to a bigger issue brought up in the TIME magazine story in respect to blog bias. Tim Bray makes a good point in his quote:

"The presence of advertising clearly pollutes the simplicity of the relationship between the writer and the reader. But I think it would be really simplistic and indefensible to argue this is a unique problem in the blogging space," says Tim Bray, a blogger whose day job is director of Web technologies at Sun Microsystems.