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Tell you what, you start cutting checks for 5 bucks whenever you visit a new blog, and I bet they'll start switching to that business model immediately :)
by jbooth 16y ago
Tell you what, you start cutting checks for 5 bucks whenever you visit a new blog, and I bet they'll start switching to that business model immediately :)
- jacquesm 16y agoEffectively ads are a bad substitute for a micro payment system. If there were such a thing I think that ad free content would rule. Imagine paying $20 on top of your current internet bill to never ever see another ad on all the sites you visit and have that $20 distributed to those sites proportional to how much time you spend there. The reason that such schemes have not found much in terms of adoption are chicken-and-the-egg related. People that would not want to get on board with this could stick to the current ad based solutions.
- icey 16y agoWhat do you think about micropayment systems like Flattr? http://flattr.com/ http://flattr.com/
- jbooth 16y ago100% agreed, with the caveat that they're way more workable than any micropayment system. Who's the broker? How do we decide how much "traffic" your site got and how much revenue it's entitled to? How do you join? Do you need to join to make money off of eyeballs? Plus, the chicken egg issues, as you cite.