Book People Archive

Re: a totally refreshing attitude of nonchalance

>i read jesse's comment as neither "insensitive" nor a "rant".

Thank you!  I certainly didn't mean for it to appear that way.

>and for all we know, he regularly donates to charities.

I do - both money and labor.

>as for bloggers (or anyone else) asking for donations,
>i don't see anything wrong with it.   what seems weird,
>to me anyway, is for people to believe that their blog is
>special enough that it would _warrant_ any donations...
>some are, sure.   but the vast majority fail to rise above
>the massive amount of free content available otherwise.

I agree - you said it much better than I did. 

I have donated to website owners and software authors in the past.  In
those cases, they offered unique resources that were invaluable to me
(professionally or personally)..  I have not yet encountered any blogs
that fit those criteria, at least when it comes to my needs.

- Jesse