{"id":3283,"date":"2011-11-12T21:36:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T21:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2011-11-12T21:40:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T21:40:49","slug":"here-are-a-couple-of-ways-in-which-you-can-support-content-and-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/12\/here-are-a-couple-of-ways-in-which-you-can-support-content-and-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Here are a couple of ways in which you can support content creation and infrastructure development"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am kind of like Public Radio – every so often I lay this guilt trip on people reminding them that the content they appreciate costs someone some money.<\/p>\n

The notion of free content is mostly an illusion – you pay, you tolerate ads, you tolerate a provider’s self promotion, someone else pays, or you trade personal information for content. I like the idea of “we trade”, but I wonder how well this has worked.\u00a0I can tolerate any of these options as long as I can determine the motivation and I do not have to listen to someone claim that “information just wants to be free”.<\/p>\n

Here are a couple of ideas I endorse and have subsidized. My contributions were modest, $60 and $25 if I remember correctly, so this is about encouraging lots of people to accept responsibility rather than assuming big donors will step forward.<\/p>\n

Readability<\/a>\u00a0offers users an option that gives 70% of fees (30% to Readability) to registered publishers with a Readability user stores the text from a web site for later review. This seems fair to me since this system also does not display the ads that might have originally accompanied the content. I decided to give this a try – I am in for $5 a month.<\/p>\n

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My latest investment is in the open source project “Disaspora<\/a>“. \u00a0The idea here is to create an open source and unaffiliated social networking site very similar to Google +. The site is now hosted, but the long term goal would allow organizations to host their own “node” (I think that is the term). I like the idea of a more diverse environment not so narrowly linked to a few commercial providers.<\/p>\n

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