> And I can say from experience that it's tough keeping a blog going when you have near-zero readership, even if you still consider the act of writing something and putting it out in public to be instrinsically valuable to you.

There are other ways to monetize, which doesn't depend on a lot of eyeballs. If you write high quality niche content and sell related products or services, then each eye ball can be worth a lot.

You're only taking about IT stuff, while tourism is one of the largest global industries.

Not to mention hundreds of other sectors which will benefit from better international communication.

I notice that angry hackers are going nuts with their down votes. Make an argument instead if you have something to say.

Tourism and travel is one of the worlds largest industries, and companies in that sector can improve their revenue with double digits if they can reach and communicate with more customers. That's real impact, which is worth something, while hacker votes are worth nothing.

Almost right. The blog of this generation is called YouTube, and there's millions of such videos, with the author mostly talking.

Why? YouTube pays creators, blogs don't.

I think your perspective might be severely limited. There exists millions of businesses outside of big IT enterprises.