The Life Hacker girl has a book out (and she is in NewsWeek, too):
[...] It wasn’t until I’d posted to Lifehacker 12 times a day every weekday for 9 months until I got a career-changing email from David at LaunchBooks, a literary agent who wanted to know if I was interested in turning Lifehacker into a book. That’s the power of a consistent blog that builds its readership over time: instead of my pitching a book to an agent, [an] agent came to me. Since that initial contact by David (who did become my agent), SIX other literary agents contacted me asking about a Lifehacker book. [...]
How to turn your blog into a book? There are three types of blog posts related to three blogger roles:
#1. Human newsbots —> no book
#2. Ranters —> book (if stories are updated before publication).
#3. Essayists —> great book (will benefit from commenters’ input)
Blogger classification from Guy Kawasaki. This little rascal of Chris Masse sadly falls in #1 and #2, but I plan to invade #3 with the X Groups and the X Universes. His Royal Highness at Overcoming Errors dot com and Guy Kawasaki do a great deal of #3 —> blog-based book —> great success.
