There's a phenomenon with blogging that has passed me completely; earning money on blogging...

No, not really completely, I've heard it but payed about as much attention to it as a whisper i the wind... none at all.

It's stopped being a whisper, lately, and I've become acquainted with blog sites that will pay for exposure of whatever you write, based on how many actually read it.
... or simply putting something like Google's AdSense somewhere in it.

It got me thinking that maybe ... but then, my blog can be quite personal, and I shy away from making money from something like this...

I'll have to ponder this over a few more times, me thinks...