Making money from blogs?

We've all heard about professional bloggers--people who make money from blogging. Many of them use Google's AdSense to generate some pocket money.

Now, there is a couple of new options for local bloggers who attract good traffic. One is called Nuffnang, and the other is Advertlets.

Both serve more or less the same purpose: to help bloggers monetize their blogs via ads.

It's good that these kinds of services have emerged. Traditional media placement companies are not familiar with blogs and therefore are ill-equipped to deal with them.

These smaller, niche companies, in contrast, are founded and staffed by younger, Net-savvy people who are fully connected to the blogging scene.