{"id":1146,"date":"2006-03-10T00:29:58","date_gmt":"2006-03-10T04:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2006-03-10T00:29:58","modified_gmt":"2006-03-10T04:29:58","slug":"kottke-the-first-professional-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1146","title":{"rendered":"Kottke: the first professional blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a title=\"Jason Kottke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jason_Kottke\">Jason Wikipedia article<\/a>, Jason Kottke of <a title=\"kottke.org :: home of fine hypertext products\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/\">kottke.org<\/a> was the first to try to make a living from blogging through a PBS-like <a title=\"Doing kottke.org as a full-time job (kottke.org)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/05\/02\/kottke-micropatron\">micropatrons<\/a> approach where he had a 3 week &#8220;fund drive&#8221; which raised enough for him to blog for a year.<\/p>\n<p>After a year he reflected on the experience in <a title=\"Oh, what a year (kottke.org)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/06\/02\/oh-what-a-year\">Oh, what a year<\/a>. <a title=\"felixsalmon.com: \u201a\u00c4\u00ee Kottke and promises\" href=\"http:\/\/www.felixsalmon.com\/000386.html\">felixsalmon<\/a> was not impressed.<\/p>\n<p>This story, which was big <a title=\"Blogger Jason Kottke Goes Pro - Arts Extra - Newsweek - MSNBC.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/7080837\/site\/newsweek\/\">news<\/a>  at the time, is old now, I know. Thanks to Matt for alerting me to it (back when it was news.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Jason Wikipedia article, Jason Kottke of kottke.org was the first to try to make a living from blogging through a PBS-like micropatrons approach where he had a 3 week &#8220;fund drive&#8221; which raised enough for him to blog for a year. After a year he reflected on the experience in Oh, what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1146\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kottke: the first professional blogger<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-blogging-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}