Now Zoundry has an interesting approach to making money off of blogging. The've developed what looks like a nice blog editor, that works with Atom API supporting tools. The twist is that the editor makes it easy to add links to products, presuming you're writing reviews or other content that might encourage a purchase. Meanwhile, Zoundry provides a complementary affilliate program centralization service, which will manage your product click throughs, for a small cut. The win is that you sign up one place, but reap from multiple programs.
Doubt if this is really for me, although I may try the blog editor as I really haven't seen one I like for Windows. I don't do affiliate programs. But this strikes me as a pretty innovative way to get desktop software to pay for itself.