Nick Ramsay, the owner of Nice4Rice, dropped a comment on my "Are you a Serious Blogger?" article about the fact that he pulled the plug on Nice4Rice. I hadn't been to his blog or read it in my feedreader since he wrote the farewell article.

Nick had a goal when he started the blog. His goal was to make additional income. Nice4Rice wasn't doing it for him and after six months, he knew he didn't want to continue with it. He's still on the web in other places, including his blog at Nick Ramsay's Long Countdown. The point is that he knew when to quit and ended it with dignity.

There are probably thousands of other blogs that fit in his category, where the owners started them to make money, found out it wasn't working for them, and gave up on them. Most of them probably just stopped posting one day without so much as a whisper.

People start blogs all time, sometimes for the right reason and sometimes for the wrong reason. In Nick's case, it was probably the right reason but the wrong way of doing it. The format he followed required too much time for the return on investment. I saw it happen right before my eyes when he was researching my blog for a review.

I didn't start Untwisted Vortex with the intention of making money. Making money is still not my primary purpose for blogging. I would still be blogging if I wasn't making a single cent from it. If I ever end it, it won't have anything to do with how much money it makes for me. On the other hand, I started another blog to make passive income from Google AdSense while using it as a place to write about videos of all kind (and not writing about videos on this blog anymore). My plan was not to invest a lot of time on it and I haven't so far, other than setting it up.

If I set up another blog in the future, it will be for passive income from another source, but that day may or may not ever come. It depends on how well VideoTyme does in the next year. As long as UV and VideoTyme continue to pay for themselves, they may both be in service for a long time to come.