On Tuesday, Jason Kottke announced to the “blogosphere” that he was quitting his day job to become a professional “blogger”.
He said goodbye to his web design job, and is attempting to become a fulltime “blogger” for the next year, supported by payments from his “micropatrons”. His suggested payment/donation/salary payment from you is US$30 a year. That’s $2.50 a month if you support his “blog” and wish him to continue in his quest to update more often with better content (or something) and continue with no advertisements.
Now, I don’t know why you would pay to follow links and read a bit of commentary, but that doesn’t matter to me. I’m sure there are people out there who will indeed pay to read (obviously not people who get books from libraries, steal magazines from dental surgeries, and hack WiFi networks) and I’m sure there are people who will pay me to do stuff on the internet. I mean, if Jason Kottke can do it, why can’t I? I see no reasons why not, none at all.
I have worked out that I could do this on your “micropatron” payment of $1* per month. That’s only $12 a year! Obviously, that is much more of a bargain than becoming Jason’s “micropatron”. For your $12, I will attempt to update more than once a fortnight, will be able to afford to see more movies to write bad reviews for, and may even be able to afford to buy a video camera to make hilariously intelligent internet memes. I absolutely promise that I will use your money to travel more, and thus I will be able to post more photos of things you wish you could afford to photograph, and the possibility of more exciting diary entries about my trips. Your money will also go towards funding my laziness, and hopefully a nasty drug habit because I really want one but simply can’t afford this at the moment.
Dear readers, I truly believe that your $1 per month (recommended price only!) will be worthwhile to you and valuable to me. I will make some effort to deliver my promises to you, and I trust this will be satisfactory to you.
So what are you waiting for?
*I will need 4,166.666 donations in order to quit my job and do the things I say I might do. So give me more! Give me everything you’ve got! This cause is more worthy than any charity!!1
Moller Sold Out!!!!
/me goes to post a rant on my own blog about how people are making money and I’m not, but I’m not bitter, oh no!
There you go, don’t waste it all on booze in one go
Why not just get a job and work hard ? Than sit on your ass the whole day,cutting and pasting links from news sites.Kottle sucks or maybe has a lot of dough or works as a male pro at night or a stripper….