I am not really sure what the attraction is over at Jason Kottke weblog but he obviously has a very large probably one of the largest weblog followings on the net and he has published the results of his annual fund-drive.
Incidentally he made enough to blog for a year and nearly matched his old salary. This to me is fascinating in that people would send that much money to one weblogger. I guess I better put his site on a daily read and see what he has to say.
Those of you that have been reading for a while know I am looking to write this weblog and podcast fulltime within about 26 months. This is a significant goal time will tell but being I have a wife, four kids a dog and everything that goes with that my replacement income is probably significantly more than what Jason had to raise but again I could be wrong.
The way I figure it at this point it would take every last person reading this weblog and listening to the podcast to have to contribute about $50.00 each and I am sure their are not that many people that can afford that. But hey I have 26 months or so to build up the readership so that we can cut that number down to a reasonable amount. [Jason Kottke]
He actually only made “almost” 1/3 his previous salarly (check the graph again). Depending on what his previous salary was, it’s still a pretty good amount, though.