Not a bad way to get cash

So this is not about design but instead about blogging, relevant because this is a blog and maybe somebody who reads this is good at blogging.

Here is an excerpt taken from the age.com.au, view the whole article at:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/soldier-blogger-wins-prize/2007/05/14/1178995040941.html
OR for more info on the blooker prize go to:
http://www.lulublookerprize.com/
"former US machine gunner's irreverent memoir about his year fighting in Iraq has won the Blooker prize for the best book of the year based on a blog.

My War: Killing Time in Iraq by Colby Buzzell was awarded the £5000 ($A12,000) prize today, beating out 110 entries from 15 countries.

The late Kurt Vonnegut wrote to Buzzell praising the book and US blogging queen Arianna Huffington, a Blooker judge, called it "an unfiltered, often ferocious expression of his boots-on-the-ground view of the Iraq war".

But Buzzell, 31, said he would have never written it had it not been for the encouragement from readers of the anonymous online journal he started in his free time in a war zone"

I have read the actual book and it is quite good, and it was entirely based on his blog.