Deep Jive Interests has an interesting post called Offshore Blogging: The Most Explosive Blogging Issue of 2008?
The main point of the Deep Jive post is that a blogger who lives in an area of the world where cost of living is cheap can live off their blogging efforts while bloggers that live in the United States and Europe can't.
"…But what if you live in a place where the cost of living is low — and, I mean *really* low, compared to the United States?
And what happens if you live in a place where English just happens to be an official language?
Well, you might do all right on $250 USD per month.
For those bloggers restricted to the North American blogosphere, I ask you to turn your gaze east — far, far to the east. In places like the Philippines, the blogosphere is alive and well, and, might I add, kicking ass. I have quite a bit of personal experience with Philipino bloggers as one of them as the Tech editor of b5media (where DJI resides), Jayvee Fernandez, the former editor of the BlogHerald was a Philipino blogger, Abe Olandres, and the current assistant editor of the BlogHerald is a Philipino blogger, J. Angelo Racoma."
Well….I'm not moving.
"..India is another good example, like the wildly successful Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration.
In addition to bringing a different perspective to their blogging, the most important difference is not that they’re willing to settle for less — but that the current standard of blogging pay is more acceptable to them. The return on their time and effort is simply more worthwhile."
"…I guess the bigger question is that as blogging evolves as a global phenomonon AND as a genuine business enterprise, will we see more and more content creation move “offshore?”
And if it does, what will happen when the North American blogosphere takes notice?"
I don't count on blogging to make a living off of and if it contributed even 10% of my gross income I'd be happy.
