Looks like I paid myself 17 cents

I wrote several weeks ago that I was going to try Readability for a year. This is an application that strips out the material surrounding articles and saves the articles in a format that is supposed to be easier to read. Part of the company’s strategy is to compensate the sites for removing the context (including ads) from the content. Users commit a minimum of $5 a month and $3.50 is divided up among the sites (I think you have to register your sites to receive compensation).

So, in the first month, I stored 23 articles in Readability or Instapaper. The NYTimes was my most common provider (76 cents worth) and it looks like I downloaded an article from myself. Not sure why I would download something I wrote – I was probably just learning the system. However, if they send me 17 cents I will probably not be able to resist posting that someone finally paid me.