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No you don't. You think you want micropayment, but you don't. The problem with the "pay for quality article regardless of where they come from" theory is that
by cocktailpeanuts 10y ago
No you don't. You think you want micropayment, but you don't.
The problem with the "pay for quality article regardless of where they come from" theory is that you don't know what "quality" is until you have already consumed it. But then again, if you've already consumed it, then you're too late to decide if it's worth reading or not.
This is why reputation is important in journalism. If you step back and think about it, your sense of "quality" depends 99% on what other people think. I'm not insulting you, this is how it works. People have better things to do than sitting around reading every single article to figure out if it's high quality or not, and that's why most people regardless of intelligence rely on reputation to judge quality.
That's why the successful model will be building a news organization with high reputation. That's what people actually want (so they don't have to waste time trying to decide what to trust or not) and that's what makes sense for the organizations financially. That's why the micropayment model will never replace the subscription model and increasingly so.
- MrBuddyCasino 10y agoBlendle gives you your money back if you don't like an article, no questions asked. It works quite well I'd say.
- cocktailpeanuts 10y agoMaybe for you money is more valuable than time, and that's fine, but I was talking about time, not money.
- MrBuddyCasino 10y agoThey send you daily mails with the best articles and describe their content and why you should read them. Articles can be 'liked', and very popular ones go into a weekly (monthly/yearly) Best Of. Its certainly not uncurated.
- cocktailpeanuts 10y ago> The problem with the "pay for quality article regardless of where they come from" theory is that you don't know what "quality" is until you have already consumed it. If you read my comment above, that's basically what I'm saying. You are delegating your quality judgment to Blendle, so you are not paying for quality articles "regardless of where they come from". You are paying for quality articles that Blendle sent you. You know it's worth your time to go through the list because you trust Blendle's reputation.
- anamoulous 10y ago"News on spec" doesn't sounds like a great business model.