I had no idea Gawker bloggers made this kind of money:

It turns out that Golson got 557,469 pageviews in March, which equates to a total paycheck of $5,435. That’s well over double his base pay. His colleague Nicholas Carlson earned $9,025 for the month, in which Valleywag as a whole got just over 5 million pageviews.

Online advertising has clearly arrived in the past few years, and nimble, lean operations like Gawker are making very good money. Heck, even well-positioned, interesting individuals like John Gruber seem to be doing quite well working for themselves. Sure sounds like the life to me…