And about this thread.
Well I also learned stuff, that I was hesitating to play with before.
To start with I took the autoblog route. I never actually worked with WP (weird isnt? hahaha) but now I make some basic modifications to the themes and most important (for me) on the plugins.
My "mistake" is that I got interested in black hat much more (the force is sooo strong)

. I improved my php a lot and created some quite useful scripts for me to automate account creating to SB and also SB posting. Also learned how to automate blog creation etc. Anyway, I learned A LOT of automation....
I said it was a mistake because all this blackhat thingy (did I mentioned that is addictive?) got me nowhere because I am so bored and unwilling to build any whitehat sites first. So the social bookmarking is useless if you dont have a concrete foundation (SEO Empire

).
Money results? Nope. Not good. Not good at all.
Great thread. A big thank you (again?) to Aequitas for the really great and useful information he provides.