Making 12 cents with Adsense

Adsense wouldn't advertise on this Blog, so I created a new one. JokeVault . As soon as I started posting to it, people started reading! My free counter from Bravenet started ticking, before I had even told anyone it existed. It turns out that whenever its advertised as updated on blogspot, people come to read it.
Good, I have some visitors, now for the revenue. I reapplied for Adsense and was accepted. Contextual ads started appearing. Great. Only problem is, its not making any money. My google adsense account is currently listing about 600 page impressions (thats 600 times the ad has been viewed) and I've only got 12 cents in my Adsense account. To earn $10 I would need 50000 page impressions. To earn $1000 I would need 5 million ad views. Is it just me, or is there a problem here?

Not advertising with Adsense

Adsense is a wonderful scheme from Google for putting their advertisements all over everyone else's web sites at their advertisers' expense. Apparently the quickest and easiest way to get adsense is to set up a blog here on Blogger and apply from here first. I did, but Google refused on the grounds of "Page Type".

"Page type: We currently don't accept websites that offer incentives
(monetary or point-based) to users or third-party beneficiaries for
online activity including, but not limited to, clicking on ads or
links, performing searches, surfing websites, reading emails, or
completing surveys."

I changed the blog. Got rid of bits talking about exactly how much money you can make from resource-a-day. Got rid of a couple of other links. Applied again.
Same answer.
I give up. Google can keep their enormous adverising revenue away from this Blog.