Profession: blogger

Very interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today April 21st, by Mark Penn and E. Kinney Zalesne: "there are almost as many people in the US making their living by being bloggers that there are lawyers."

The best studies we can find say we are a nation of over 20 million bloggers, with 1.7 million profiting from the work ,and 452,000 of those using blogging as their primary source of income. That's almost 2 million Americans getting paid by the word, the post, or the click -- whether on their site or someone else's.

I don't think a great number of them are librarians or information pros though.