How Not To Blog ?

Jason Kottke, blogger extraordinairre, has resorted to begging. Jason recently quit his job as a circus clown in order to blog full time. He has a page where he takes Paypal payments and credit cards, and checks.

I almost donated $300 to his cause. NOT!

Get a f557ing job, moron! Do you think people will continue to support your pathetic cause? Why is it pathetic? Not because you're not a good blogger (you are) but because you haven't sold out yet. I know, I know.. you see the on-rush of other people making a nice living with their blogs (mostly through advertising and other sponsorships) and figure you can do the same thing. But you want to do it with a clean conscience, not accepting any advertising whatsoever. Only subsisting on the kindness of others through their financial contributions.

If it works, hundreds of other popular bloggers (read: not me) will try the same thing and the market for begging bloggers will be saturated, driving your profit margins below the grave and into a Chinese sweat shop.

Fucking advertise and get it over with. You already advertise yourself like a cheap hooker with lime-green spandex. And you advertise your ideas everyday, as well as products, services, people, and other websites you like. I can't count all the ads on your begging page in good time. However, I did catch your referral code in your Movaeble Type link pointing to www.movabletype.org/track/?kottke .. nice. It looks like you're a whore after all). You link everywhere buy up my grandpa's fat ass. But you will not do it for money. (At least, not yet.)

Pathetic sites like this one can't do it because nobody would want to advertise here. (I could always install Google Adsense. Heck, they'd take anyone.) Sell out already!

I will support your sponsor, but I will not sponsor you.