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February 25, 2006


Insufficient Personality Cult

Professional blogger throws in the towel, by Graeme Wearden

Jason Kottke, a Web designer who quit his job to run his blog full-time, has abandoned his plan to make a living through blogging after exactly one year … Kottke revealed that he had raised a total of $39,900 from 1,450 donors.

If Kottke lived in Beijing instead of Brooklyn, he could survive for many years on forty grand. When he started the micropayment campaign I thought, yeah, he might be able to raise enough money to survive one year, but the real trick will be raising enough money to survive the next year.

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