Progging? Probling? Jason Kottke: Pro-Bling. I like it.

So Jason is a professional now. There's just something so odd about the idea. It's a business model that does not scale at all. His patrons are all, for the most part, other bloggers. If all bloggers tried this, then everyone would be contributing to everyone else. As there would be no outside sources of money, the total money in the system would remain constant and, in the ensemble average, everyone would donate out as much as was donated to them. And they would all starve.

Sadly, we can't all try this experiment. There has to be outside funding. Some of us have to keep slaving away for the man. But, in the end, that's probably for the best since my collective readership could probably swing together $10 or $20 for me in a pinch. The thing with Jason's website is that it is, how to put this... well, way way way better than mine.

I look at kottke.org as sort of the PBS of weblogs. I'm willing to donate some $$$ because the programming is good and there aren't ads. There are plenty of blogs out there that are supported by ads and are analagous to CNN or something. Then there's me. No ads, crap content. I'm like public access cable TV - I'm the ranting ultra-fundy that comes on Sundays at 3:30am. But when I'm not spreading the word on channel 37, I watch PBS.