Tony Hung reacts over at Deep Jive Interests to a recent NY Times article on blogging as possibly the next in profession among connected individuals. While the NY Times article highlights blogging–or actually problogging–as a novel new way of earning, Tony stresses the importance of offshoring opportunities for blogging.

The topic of moving creative content off-shore is a topic that hasn’t yet reached any kind of critical mass amongst bloggers, but I predict it one day will. The NYT article, for example, mentions how its possible that some bloggers are making somewhere in the range of $250 per month as an average. Yep — certainly hard to live off of. Even if you’re working at, let’s say 10 of these such blogs a month, earning $2500 can be a meagre set of earnings for the amount of work that it requires.

But what if you live in a place where the cost of living is low — and, I mean *really* low, compared to the United States?

And what happens if you live in a place where English just happens to be an official language?

Tony argues that blogging may not exactly be a fulfilling occupation and profession in terms of earnings. But that’s just so when you happen to come from an affluent region or country. Sure, $250 per blog per month is small change. However, if you come from a region where the cost of living is significantly lower, then blogging or writing content for blogs might be a good career path.

Tony says blog networks these days are sure to have some part of their staff or writers from countries like India and the Philippines. So the offshoring trend is not just in office-related business processes like accounting and customer relations, it’s also in blogging.

And as for the content? I know there is a prevailing perception that quality of customer relations personnel from outside of the US or other more affluent regions may not be at par with locals when it comes to practical use of the language (like “English” is not really equivalent to “American”). Tony believes that when it comes to the more creative aspects of the language–such as writing, and even blogging, for instance–offshored bloggers are up to the challenge.

I think the answer is more nuanced if you look at blogging from a global point of view. And I think that for bloggers who are being paid in American dollars, the answer is a more convincing yes for those living in places where the standard of living is lower — and they get a higher return on their time and effort. Certainly with respect to quality — of writing, of work, of effort — my experience is that they’re *at least* on par with their North American counter parts.