“getting to meet jason kottke is like getting to meet brad pitt’s cousin”

March 13, 2006

“getting to meet jason kottke is like getting to meet brad pitt’s cousin”

Interesting conversation between Jason Kottke and Heather Armstrong, as transcribed by Rex Hammock:

Heather: (Why she doesn’t have the subscription model) “I didn’t want the readers to think we’re entering a bargain where they feel they can demand (something specific from me)…like when (Kottke) went to Asia (and readers said, “Hey, I didn’t give him money to do that.”)
Kottke: I’m not (continuing the subscription model) because I had 1,500 bosses. I (originally) saw it as a magazize subscription. People who subscribe to magazines don’t think of themselves as shareholders. (But people who subscribed to his site did.)
Heather: Did your relationship with the website change?
Kottke: It became more like a job job. I felt I had to do it a certain way. It couldn’t be just whatever the hell I wanted it to be. (To Heather) I thoought your site would do good with a subscription model, because your readers are fans. the people are obsessed with you.

Yep. The old job job thing. Gets you every time. Hence “The Sex & Cash Theory”.