As any English premiership manager can tell you, you need balls, obviously it's football- of course you need balls but you also need to keep the fans happy. When results in soccer start to go pear shaped, the fans are usually the one's who initiate the call for the manager's head. And sure as bankruptcy follows sub-prime, the aforementioned manager will (to combine footballing epithets ) get the boot, at the end of the day. (all credit to the lads (just for extra cringe)
So what would happen if the to be sacked manger 'managed' (sic) to retain 1000 (yes 1K) fans, well apparently, while perhaps not a guarantee of a premiership management salary, it would be sufficient for the sacked manager to make a living by using the internet. Now before you start flinging Nielsen rating at me, understand that it is the eminent Kevin Kelly that offers this hypothesis and not myself.
I happen to find it intriguing to think that you can support yourself (wife, kids and family) on a loyal readership of 1000 fans. Well obviously you'd have to produce something worth buying (like maybe the new elbow album I'm listening to at the minute) which is pretty excellent stuff, butI find it interesting that I forked out 18 euro for the physical CD and it's available on 7 digital for under a tenner. That's a good way to lose fans.
What Kevin might also seek to address is the difference between the hordes of bloggers and floggers on the net. I'm not particularly interested in monetizing my content, I have no urge to ram ads down people's pupils, I'm not going for the audience build thang, like many others I'm just amusing myself here with some cheap textual therapy, which means this is already saving me 60 euro an hour writing it, to then have the audacity to ask someone else for money would simply be a long tale too far. If 10 people read and enjoyed this, that's more worthwhile than 1000 demanding fans. I know it's Paddy's day but you'd really want to be outta your skull to chase fame and fortune by the thousand.
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