I'll be happy to help anyone who wants to get started. America needs more pinko blogs.
Cole got visible because he's an Arabist and the U.S. is current waging war, not only because he blogs. Reporters and radio/tv producers can be very lazy. They would rather look up "economist" in the phone book than try and find out which economist has a clue as to what s/he is talking about. Cole put his name out front and made himself accessible. There are now millions of blogs, most utterly ignored, including some very good ones. Just having one guarantees nothing. Google ads aren't worth a buck of spit. There are some other ways to make a bit of money. Very few people can make a living at it. The most successful get some synergy out of it by combining it with other pastimes.
