Passing The Hat

Jason Kottke quit his day job over a year ago in order to blog full time.
His large and loyal following, helped him achieve this via 1450 micropayments totalling $39,900 (collected in the first three weeks of the drive). Of course, he’s thankful, but he won’t be asking for more of the same.

I’m not going to be asking for contributions again. I haven’t grown traffic enough or developed a sufficient cult of personality to make the subscription model a sustainable one for kottke.org…those things just aren’t interesting to me.

I’m glad he revealed his figures, because I had a similar thought last Friday night while seeing Yonder Mountain String Band play in Charlotte. My thought was this: a head-to-head contest between me and Alex Bogusky, called “Beat Bogusky To Boulder.”
I’m not ready to pull the trigger on it, just yet. But it’s a fun idea, so I thought I’d share it with you.