This is an awesome idea. When the web was young, getting people to read and comment on your ideas was a great way to get feedback and encouragement for good ide

This is an awesome idea. When the web was young, getting people to read and comment on your ideas was a great way to get feedback and encouragement for good ideas. Advertising has distorted and rendered the open web far less useful in this regard. Funding small one time projects without strings is something that DARPA used to do. It's been missed. In their application, they offer an option for the funded projects to write up their project as a blog post. I think it would also be good for them to offer funded projects an additional option to to be included in list/post from the funder's side. It would be a nice way to add perspective to outside observers.