I’m working on a project that’s nearly done but haven’t forgotten this, my main goal. I need to make money from having something online, preferrably a blog.

I’ve already started pointing people to my webpage as much as possible. Mostly people from gaming forums I’m on, etc. It’s sorely in need of a redesign, but it is what it is right now. Stop by! www.sunnypad.com

Here are my ideas:

Non-blog:
1. Make a top-100 list. List of games, list of technical tools, something like that. Pop some ads on it and get the list out there to start generating some revenue.

Blog ideas:
I’ve had two blog ideas. Would appreciate feedback on which are better ideas:
1. A regular ol’ technical blog. Pros: people like them. I do. Cons: there are a bazillion of them out there. What will make people want to come back to mine regularly?
2. A knowledge-type of blog. Kind of a learn-with-me thing. I take a subject that I don’t know anything about and just start learning about it and blogging. Anyone interested can learn along with me.

Problems with blogging: People like me use news aggregators. I only go into the blog entries if they hold my interest or have more information that I want to see. People that skim links in an aggregator won’t bring in revenue for me.

Another thing – what will make someone want to read my blog? I have a bazillion feeds in my aggregator. But which blogs make me want to rush to them first? Also there’s not enough time in the day sometimes…even the things I’m dying to keep up with, I just can’t. So the updates are piled up in my newsreader. I’m sure I’m not the only one having this issue.

Things to think about and tackle.