kottke had a job!

Jason Kottke has decided to give up his day job, and blog full-time for a year. This is remarkable for a number of reasons:

1. I'd imagined that he already made his money from blogging, or things associated


2. though I couldn't imagine how


3. he obviously reads and processes a lot of stuff, and puts it up in a very engaging way, so he's almost becoming a professional information processor, pointing to various things, rather than a writer that you read for what he is writing


4. judging by the response at del.icio.us he should be successful - at least 58 people have linked to his post about going pro and the need for micropatrons, and at least 413 people have linked to his blog.

It'll be very interesting to see how well it works.

I found out via Chapati Mystery which is a very fine blog compassing history, cricket, kite flying, ritual sacrifice, US politics and a lot more. And I was directed to Chapati Mystery by Kottke. Nice circularity, almost chapati like, maybe.