Can you actually earn a reasonable income from your blog? That’d be news to ArtsJournal’s bloggers, but according to some in the blog biz, ad revenue for high-traffic blogs has been going up steadily, and some bloggers are even getting paid directly for their work. “On average, Weblog salaries are about a quarter to half what a mid-level editorial job would pay, without the daily office commute… What do you have to do to earn $500? Publish 125 entries a month, monitor comments, respond to readers and delete offensive comments — all for about $4 a post.”