dive into mark

XML.com: What is RSS? Hey, that’s me.

Background:

Kendall Clark, one of the editors of O’Reilly’s XML.com, contacted me out of the blue about a month ago. He reads my weblog. Apparently, lots of interesting people read my weblog. This continues to surprise me, despite statistics showing that I consistently get several thousand readers a day. Apparently, one of them is an O’Reilly editor.

So anyway, I wake up one day, and I have this email from Kendall Clark, offering to pay me to write a monthly column for O’Reilly’s XML.com. This is not the kind of offer you get every day. Well, maybe you do. But I don’t. Naturally, I jumped at the chance. This month’s article is about RSS, and probably next month’s article too, and then we’ll branch out and see where it goes. The column will be called Dive Into XML, which should come as a surprise to precisely no one.

This is a new milestone for me. In the past year, I have been paid for designing, and I’ve been paid for coding, and for training, and even for editing, but today is the first time in my life that I’ve been directly paid for writing.

I’ve previously discussed how to make money from blogging:

1. Wile away the best years of your life building a weblog and filling it with useful, interesting, relevant, topical, engaging content every day.
2. ???
3. Profit!

I can now fill in step 2. Step 2 is wait patiently for an O’Reilly editor to contact you. Your mileage may vary, but it worked for me.

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