connecting*the*dots

Great conversation.

Now that I’ve been blogging full-time for the past year, I can relate to these ancients of the craft like never before. They’re going back and forth on the ills of advertising and subscription models — something I’ve yet to have to deal with as my readership ain’t quite there yet (read: go tell your friends to come on by!) — and the origins of their ideas, style and voice.

Regarding advertising, sustaining my effort is eventually going to catch up with me… I think. Right now balancing freelance gigs with writing is working, but the allure to blog even more is getting stronger and stronger, especially as I get more and more into a groove with my voice and my POV. And once I start connecting with more like minds…

But back to Jason and Heather; the conversation is shifting into how blogging has affected their friends and relationships. It’s interesting to hear them talk about direct feedback and how it affects their personal lives. Jason brought up Heather’s Wiki biography, where a fan ended the bio by saying, “Heather and husband remain unemployed.” Really funny. (Heather, I had to live-blog update that last line ;)

I wonder what Dave Winer will think of Jason’s view of him being a pied piper-type blogger. It wasn’t a dig of any type — it was Jason trying to make clear how he didn’t view himself — but it’ll be interesting to see how it plays out in “Days Of Our Blogosphere”

Kottke just called his fiance, Yoko. Doh!

Blogging rules.