was someone dropping a sawbuck in my jar. Many thanks.
I have been following Jason Kottke’s discussion of his transition from weblogger by night/designer by day to full-time weblogger and the emergence of a new kind of patronage. I think some people have missed the point: it’s not like he’s busking or offering “take it or leave it” entertainment. He’s offering a subscription where you, the reader, set the price and the frequency (you don’t have to go there every day).
I lack the audience size to try something like that (to say nothing of the quality of material) but I feel some affinity with Kottke for this quote:
I’m interested in too many things to settle on design or programming or writing or a particular topic. kottke.org indulges my desire to be interested in too many things (as Neal Stephenson put it recently).
It will be an interesting experiment to watch.