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During the last months with a smartphone and a 3g I have noticed I read more. I spend a lot of time in the metro and I read. I read about everything, but I enjo
by kfk 12y ago
During the last months with a smartphone and a 3g I have noticed I read more. I spend a lot of time in the metro and I read. I read about everything, but I enjoy in depth articles on many topics. However, I find it difficult to find good writing or good writers, following 1 or n magazines won’t cut for me, I rarely enjoy the full magazine, just 1 or 2 articles every few months. What I am saying I guess is that I would really pay for somebody to pick good articles for me. I know the internet is full of aggregators, but somehow those are not enough. For instance, I like HN a lot, but it's focus is too narrow sometimes.
Maybe paid article discovery could bring some revenues for magazines/writers? I don’t see much interest in this tough.
- tarentel 12y agoI'd be interested I just don't know how it would work. Most publications want you to pay them I don't know how open they'd be to a more Netflix approach. If it existed I would certainly look into it.
- petercooper 12y agohttp://longform.org/ http://longform.org/ is one company with a model along those lines, I think.
- mattxxx 12y agoPaid article discovery seems scary... like a way to extremely narrow people's fields of sight. The issue seems to fundamentally be about how to pay good writers, that offer something useful to read.
- _mhr_ 12y agoThink about it this way. Perhaps a certain ratio of the articles recommended could be "out of your comfort zone."