blogging for cash easy or difficult???

ITS getting harder and harder to resist the call of the blogs.i dont mean that i can't stop readind them.its that as i click sites about gossip and gadgets,pickles and politics,i can't help wondering whether to start one of my own.After all if so many others can find fame and fortune from their corner of the internet,isn't it worth a try?
Henry Copeland,founder of blogads,which connects bloggers and advertisers,understand the temptation.it's the Horatio Alger story of the 21st Century.Copeland points to the wild success of "Perez Hilton",a sasy online gossip coulmnist who started his blog just two years ago and now registers 100 million impressions a month.
Jim Furtado is one of those hoping for cyber success of his own.Furtado started his blog,Baseball Think Factory,nearly six years ago when he was working as a fireman in Massachusetts and had a lot of free time he explaind that it began as a hobby and slowly became more like a business,and now the boston Red Sox fan says he spends about 40 hours a week working on the site -in addition to his regular job.Furtado is bit frustarted,his time for writting about baseball crowded out by the demands of keeping the technology working and chasing down ads."it's not much i first startes it," he says.
The site has well over a million visits a month and brings in a little more than $1000 a month from ads but furtado is trying to boost that,"As you start spending tremendous ammounts of time, your wife says,'you better start making money on this".
everyone is trying to earn with internet but the most secure and popular way is Blogging all the blog owner's are trying to earn some cash from blogging from different types of blogs like about:Games,recipes while some are sharing there adventures and experiences and trying there best to boost their visitors.
successful blogger must work long hours -"18 hours a day,truly compulsively".
blogs advertising expected to continue its rapid grow and top $300 million by 2010.