Not grounds for unsubscribing from his feed of remaindered links (the quality of which has been high lately), but I can tell you that I didn't expect to see this advertisement for the partners in The Deck.
There's still no word on whether the products advertised are any good, only that the participants use the products. And do all participants use all the products? Finally, for an ad network that sucks, consider joining The Dreck.
In August of 2005, I complained that Jason Kottke had not delivered on a hinted return to 0sil8-like projects. There's only a month to go in Jason's year of living off the kindness of micropatrons, of which I am one, and so no such projects. I don't know if I'll contribute next month for another full year of support, since the incentive (the nice feeling I get) wore off after a while. At least with Daring Fireball I get something non-paying members don't get, i.e. full text RSS feeds, and at least Jason is aware of and expects “the inevitable drop-off in year-over-year contributions”.
As far as short link posts, he seemed to be a couple days behind my finding the links elsewhere more often than I'd like. (This coming, granted, from someone who links to del.icio.us almost all the links he points out that I click on.) As I mentioned in August, he changed the format, which made the links less compelling, and almost as a protest, my links are in his old style, that is, one link per post, with an optional one-sentence-or-so comment.
He also took weekends off. Everybody deserves a weekend off from their job, and maintaining his site was his job. But still, it made boring weekends that much more so.
In February, Jason Kottke (to the ridicule of some) started working on his weblog full time, supported by his readers, yours truly included. I mostly paid for the value I got from his Remaindered Links weblog up until then, but also wanted to support what was a really good idea. Starting this month, though, he changed the format of his Links, from just one link with a sentence of unlinked commentary to short weblog posts with multiple links. That's actually the format of Remaindered Links I didn't pay for, but that's okay, I'm not bitter because I paid more for his past links than I did for this year's. Long articles criticizing Six Apart and Technorati made for interesting fare, but it's been six months: where is the “return to more 0sil8-like projects” that he hinted at in February? I know that Paulo was looking forward to it, I was too (a little). I read the HTML version of his weblog because I've always liked his simple, elegant designs, but he did promise more, and 6 months in, other than a few tweaks, his output has consisted mostly of text and links. This is less criticism than looking forward to what he hinted at, but since he hinted, there's been little to speak of.
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