December 19, 2002
From the desk of Jane Galt:Holy dinero, batman!
If Andrew Sullivan can raise $80,000 from his readers, surely the Asymmetrical Information readers can come through with a new computer to replace the sad, limping computer that their favorite female economics-and-bullmastiff blogger in the over-six-foot category has to make do with? I mean, I hate to appeal to pity, but we are unemployed. . . and the computer's about an inch away from dying. . . and we don't have a computer at work like other bloggers, so if this one goes, so does the blogging. . . and we don't like to say it, but we've felt for a long while that you loved other bloggers better. . . when we're so fond of you. We stay up at nights worrying about you. . . what you like to read, what you do with your spare time, whether you're remembering to put your thermals on and button up tight before you head out in the cold to shovel the driveway. We care. And if you care too, we invite you to say it the old fashioned way. . . with cash. Because we love you. And we're going to get up and say it to each of you, personally, with a hug and a nice note on our very own stationery.
Just as soon as we get the computer fixed, that is.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
Posted by Jane Galt at December 19, 2002 11:04 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound linksHow about a nice plug for my weblog? Bribery is kosher in the blogosphere isn't it? j/k ;-)
A nice picture would help - back up Glenn's assertions of your visage.
I was reading about that 80k yearlier, but did he really raise that much? It sounded like such a huge number I thought it a joke. I mean, that's like revenue of $80k more than all of the dot-coms post-99/pre-00 put together.
Bleh. I'd grill you for details and figure out something, but for the fact that I am ass-broke myself right now.
And not even because the Prof thinks that you're a babe.
I've been hanging out here a while. Hope to hang out a while longer.
Thanks for taking the time to write.
I'd certainly be happy to cough up some dough to support the quality writing of many of the blogs I read (Andrew Sullivan and Jane Galt certainly), but right now I'm kinda on the wrong end of that equation.
Unemployed? I thought you had a new federal government gig.
Mmm, I thought she said there's a year's worth of security clearance on that gig...?
A year's worth of security clearance? Sheesh! That's a long time to be in limbo. Guess I'll have to check under the couch cushions to see if there's any change I can spare for Jane.
You are going to build the computer from parts, aren't you? Just for self respect?
Would you accept an iBook, or is that not PC enough for you (pun intended)?
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I have two old computers sitting around gathering dust. Keyword: old. Both are in the pentium-II 300-500 range. I think.
It might help if you specified what you think you need. It appears you are looking for a personal computer to surf/post from. Yes? In which case you don't really need much.
Or are you just looking for cash to pay off your ISP? Sorry, all my cash is allocated to IJ.
Hey - it's a market research experiment!
(1) Ms. Galt is trying the "please buy me a shoe so I can hop up hill two miles through the snow" approach.
(2) Sullivan said "you owe, pay up".
(3) Michele (asmallvictory.net) trolled for votes in Quick's contest with a mixture of threats and, umm, promises of certain delight.
(4) Various volunteers held an on-line wet t-shirt exhibition to raise travelling money.
I agree with Donut. Before I fork over some of my hard-earned dosh, I'd like to see a photo of that 'over-six-foot catagory' visage.
By the way, did I mention I have a weakness for tall women?
*grin*
Megan,
I think you'd have a lot better chance if you aren't so vague, and if you can make it fun. People like seeing goals achieved. This is what I would suggest: decide exactly what you want, figure out how much it will cost, and then publish that number. Giving updates regularly would be okay, but if you could put a prominent graphic showing progress toward the goal, not only would it give people a clearer idea of what you're shooting for, it would also make almost like a game, and I bet you'd bet a much better response.
What do you think?
podzdorf, I can easily believe that Andrew Sullivan raised $80,000, it's not even that unusual an occurance really. Your statement about dot-coms is in ignorance of the many online companies who routinely make decent profits. Having worked in the e-commerce industry I can tell you that there are a lot of small little mini-dot-coms who make circa $100 to $100k per month through online sales and have been doing so routinely for years. As for Andrew Sullivan, anyone who's paid attention to the phenomenon of web cartooning will know that it's possible to make a living being an online artist. Scott Kurtz of PVP and Tycho and Gabe of Penny Arcade, for example, are able to make decent incomes solely off of their web cartooning. I'm not the least surprised that a site such as andrewsulivan.com with such a high readership and which provides a goodly amount of (in my opinion) high quality material to those readers was able to pull in $80k in donations. According to Sullivan's tally there were about 3,000 donors, so the average donation was $24. According to the stats he gets circa 200,000 unique visitors, so the $80k is only like 40 cents average per visitor.
I'm out of work on disability for a while (until they find out what the hell is wrong with me and fix it). But if you'd like a nice used Mac, I might be able to help you out. :)
Hey, donut, her picture's on Doc Weevil's site here:
www.doctorweevil.org/Blogapalooza/
(links 1 and 11)
Ummm, the link appears to be dead. All I get is the old 404 error.
Holy smokes!
Ok, I'm in.
-Donut
ps. I would have paid anyway - I like people who actually understand economics and can explain it to idiots like me.
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