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Forget this 'job hunting' thing!
Via Noor comes the information that famous blog-type-person Jason Kottke is quitting his job to blog full-time. He says:
"I'm attempting to revisit the idea of arts patronage in the context of the internet. Patrons of the arts have typically been wealthy individuals, well-heeled foundations, or corporations. As we've seen in many contexts, the net allows individuals from geographically dispersed locations to aggregate themselves for any number of reasons. So, when you've got a group of people who are interested in a particular artist, writer, etc., they should be able to mobilize over the internet and support that person directly instead of waiting around for the MacArthur Foundation or Cosimo de Medici to do it."
Reviving arts patronage? This is crazy-talk! What good will come of that? Patrons will just dangle money in front of you, telling you what to blog. Did Leonardo da Vinci get paid to paint the Mona Lisa? Was Michelangelo commissioned to do the Sistine Chapel?
... Oh. Good point.
Anybody want to pay me to blog?
srah - Tuesday, 22 February 2005 - 4:28 PM
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mommy - February 23, 2005 - 10:11 PM - ℓ
That's so sweet. You are such a sweet sister.
jj - February 25, 2005 - 10:40 AM - ℓ
i recently have been yearning for a patron. i don't necessarily know if it would be to blog, as this is not my instrinsic talent. but i fantasize about having a older, wealthy patron once i beging graduate school. perhaps if all patrons had to be extremely attractive with high levels of sex appeal this new patronage thing could work...
oh if someone would pay me to blog i would be forced to say that i live the perfect life. as it stands, i live the almost perfect life.
thank you for sending me to little red boat. what a lovely blog! you have excellent taste.