Blogging Pays U?

During the early part of this year I was doing good business through Smorty being paid to post. It was a good service with prompt payment and lots of good opportunities but for the last two months not one offered opportunity at that site. What's up with Smorty?

Pais posts appear to have dried up generally in fact. I have made only 3 paid posts in the last two months from all sources. Perhaps paid posting is out of favor at the moment or maybe its the US economy? Who knows?