honest question, what is the overhead in running a blog platform that requires big ad revenue? it should be way cheap.
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if medium is "publishing", it needs a revenue source. but if it's just a "platform", how is it different from tumblr?
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Ads won't pay for the kind of public sphere, media, writing or investigative journalism we need. They barely did, kinda—for a short time.
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That above is right: link-bait has given way to click-bait to slide shows to fake news what-have-you. Current model is profoundly unhealthy.
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well, pretty big difference between "can't" and "won't" here... definitely *could*...
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Okay. It *could* make money but that won't support the kind of healthy ecology one would want. It would lean more of same-old.
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No way around short term, maybe. But we must recognize journ as public good that needs public funding (+ independence) to survive.
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Make the micropayments really micro. Instead of getting $0.05 per pageview from ads, charge readers that
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@temptoetiam@mgsiegler most authors on Medium claim to get up at 5 to do stuff; can't Medium sell them branded alarm clocks?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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so close yet so far from a micropayment web economy.
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