The want ad for bloggers refers to “unpaid yet rewarding opportunities.” A group of online magazines, California Chronicle, is soliciting bloggers to contribute to its 17 publications, including American Chronicle and World Sentinel. Here’s the solicitation. If publications are seeking bloggers who might be interested in increased exposure and “being listed as a writer on all 20 affiliated online local, state, national, and international magazines,” it can’t be too long before bigger media outlets begin offering pay for bloggers who contribute to their channels.

In the meantime, The Ann Arbor News has an item about various ways to profit from blogging, including a look at a software consultancy pushing the notion of blogs as a business productivity tool. “A lot of companies are asking employees to write down what they do on a daily basis. It makes a lot more sense to keep that as a blog,” according to Dianne Marsh, co-founder of SRT Solutions and president of the Ann Arbor Computer Society.