The Year draws to an end...

I can't believe that we are close to December already, just a few weeks left to Christmas and time to sign off 2009. This has been a year of challenges in the paid to blog world, and one that has asked some questions and demanded some answers.
I have always felt that money making on the internet is never static, you can't keep to the same old formula because the goal-posts keep moving. Whatever worked yesterday is not guaranteed to work today. This is why the 'get rich quick' schemes cannot work, quite simply if it's arbitrage or something similar (and it usually is...) Google are too much on top of it to let it happen. In fact, most of the get-rich-quick schemes are mostly about selling the get-rich-quick scheme on regardless of whether it works or not. (I'm not saying that arbitrage doesn't work, but no-one can guarantee you a high return from Google Adsense).
However, if you are prepared to put some work in and look for the openings, there are small amounts and sometimes reasonable amounts that can be made. If you are pursuing paid-to-blog, then you must have a fair number of blogs to play with and a fair amount of time on your hands to complete posts. If you are prepared to push the boat out a little more, then are plenty of different directions you can go in. I know of people who have moved on to create their own 'paid-to' sites, those who are relying on revenue from Adsense and keywords, and those who are more or less full-time writing - having moved on from blog-posts to ebooks and larger writing projects.
The problem with the schemes for sale is that you are ineveitably ploughing someone else's furrow, the internet for me is all about trying to make your own way, it is the entreprenuers play-ground - just make sure that is is not you that is being played with!