I was spending some time with friends last night, and they were wondering why I spend so much time on this site. I explained that all I was really doing here was reading the things I do every day, and putting down my comments and ideas that would otherwise be lost to the ether.

They then asked if there was any way for me to make money off of it. I mentioned Andrew Sullivan and his book club, the option of linking to items on Amazon with a referrer code so that I could get a portion of the sale back, Paypal donations, as well as Amazon's system a a revenue stream. None of which, for the moment, I'm doing. While I would love for someone to pay me to do this, I like having the flexibility to post, or not post, as is my want.

My goal is to be paid to write, to be sure. I enjoy reading, researching, and pontificating. Radio gives me the oppportunity to do that, much like the heavy hitters you'll find in my links at the left. Ideally, someone will come along, see this site, and think that they should pay me to make some of the concepts I come up with a reality. Really though, I'm just trying get in the habit of writing daily, soing some preliminary research on the topics that interest me, and keeping track of said work in an easy manner. Radio lets me do that, Between the seamelss feeds every hour from the sources that interest me, to the eas of getting ideas out of my head and onto the web, to the categories, stories, and host of features I haven't even tapped into yet, this is what I've been looking for for well over a year and a half now.

Good stuff.