It's no news to smart biz's like yours, but when the Wall Street Journal calls 2008 "the year to make money from your blog" it's worth noticing.

Here's the story:
New Services Help Bloggers Bring in Ad Revenue.

The WSJ in particular focuses on new audio, video and affiliate technologies. We'll let you check out the tools yourself, but how's this for a bit of "monetization motivation" for your blog:

Mongabay.com, a site with articles on rainforest conservation and other environmental issues, makes $15,000 to $18,000 a month from AdSense, using various types of ads. Mr. Butler says his blog currently gets about 1.3 million unique visitors per month.

Darren Rowse, the Melbourne, Australia-based writer of ProBlogger.net, a popular blog that teaches other bloggers how to make money, earned roughly $250,000 in 2007 off ads on three blogs he writes. Mr. Rowse says he makes the most off traditional display advertising, where advertisers pay a fee to appear, but he also has used affiliate ads and Google AdSense.