Just a Gwai Lo

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.