[This post started as a snark but has been altered to deal with the topic more seriously.]
John Dehlin wants to be a full-time blogger for a living and to do this he estimates that he needs to make $2000-$4000 per month. He has posted a proposal for how this can be done.
He is also now posting the total of pledges he has received. It currently stands at $187 per month.
I wonder what will happen if Dehlin doesn’t get the kind of numbers he was hoping for … would he bring back his blog anyway and see if he could still get the money that readers have already committed? Would those who have made pledges still want to pay?
My prediction is that John Dehlin will bring his blog back, regardless of what happens.
1Guy Murray on Oct 22, 2006 at 7:37 pm:
I’m not so sure. I sense there were other reasons that prompted John to “retire” his blog–though I admit I don’t know what they are. Why pull the whole thing down, rather than just not post anything more new? In theory there were certain aspects about what John attempted to do that were praiseworthy; but, in practice I found that much of his work was drowned out in the cacaphony of anti-Mormon diatribe posted by the same regular DAMU crowd that didn’t really appear to be interested in what John said he was trying to do. It will be interesting to watch though.