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From the Medium piece: "Our editors and algorithms help you find the best stuff." I already have three sets of editors and two algorithms for finding more stu

From the Medium piece: "Our editors and algorithms help you find the best stuff." I already have three sets of editors and two algorithms for finding more stuff than I could ever care to read: they're called "Facebook", "Twitter", and "Hacker News". So their curation piece isn't interesting to me at all; only the payments. Put another way, the web has thoroughly solved the problem of "show me some stuff that I want to read right now" -- it's like trying to drink from a firehose. There is no need for another player in that already crowded game. Where the web is failing is at funding all this stuff. I imagine that the answer for this is easy, though: a "read it on blendle" button for whatever article you clicked through to from FB, Twitter, or HN.

JeanMertz 11y ago
You mean a button like on this page? (It's in Dutch, scroll a bit down) https://www.vn.nl/het-debat-21/ https://www.vn.nl/het-debat-21/ We hear you. And we're working on it. This is only the first step of which many more will follow in the coming months.
- jonstokes 11y ago
  Yep, rockin'. Now please just let me sign up as my own publisher and write directly on the platform :)
  - JeanMertz 11y ago
    Good point. Our current "onboarding process" for publishers is a bit too heavy-weight to allow "just anyone" – even you ;-) to join Blendle right now. This is definitely something we're investigating though. And in The Netherlands, there's already a collective of journalists who created a non-profit umbrella organisation to represent freelance writers, who have been onboarded into our system. Also, the Blendle Button that I linked to above is it's own product, with a much less heavy-weight onboarding setup. We've already seen great success using the button on a German site like http://uebermedien.de/abo/ http://uebermedien.de/abo/ (in this case, a flat-fee subscription button). So that's definitely something we'd like to roll out to as much freelance publishers as possible.

JeanMertz 11y ago

You mean a button like on this page? (It's in Dutch, scroll a bit down) https://www.vn.nl/het-debat-21/ https://www.vn.nl/het-debat-21/ We hear you. And we're working on it. This is only the first step of which many more will follow in the coming months.

jonstokes 11y ago
Yep, rockin'. Now please just let me sign up as my own publisher and write directly on the platform :)
- JeanMertz 11y ago
  Good point. Our current "onboarding process" for publishers is a bit too heavy-weight to allow "just anyone" – even you ;-) to join Blendle right now. This is definitely something we're investigating though. And in The Netherlands, there's already a collective of journalists who created a non-profit umbrella organisation to represent freelance writers, who have been onboarded into our system. Also, the Blendle Button that I linked to above is it's own product, with a much less heavy-weight onboarding setup. We've already seen great success using the button on a German site like http://uebermedien.de/abo/ http://uebermedien.de/abo/ (in this case, a flat-fee subscription button). So that's definitely something we'd like to roll out to as much freelance publishers as possible.