For the entire post please click on the link above – below is an excerpt.
February 24, 2010 · by Dave Burdick of BigGreenBoulder (a Kachingle-enabled Site)
…Now, the other thing we’re messing around with here is called Kachingle. It’s a kind of interesting “crowdfunding” thinger. Here’s the idea: You sign up, you commit to paying $5 a month, and that gets spread around to any sites you read that are using Kachingle. If you read us more than any other site with Kachingle, we get the $5. If you read another site exactly as much as us, it splits it. That kind of thing.
At the writing of this post, we have 10 “Kachinglers.” You’ll see that I am one of them. Yes, I am paying a little less than $5 per month to the site I blog for. Look up quixotic in the dictionary, ladies and gentlemen, and you’ll probably see a picture of Don Quixote. But that’s only relevant because nobody’s invented the word Daveburdocktic yet. (Or Daveburdiculous.) Yet!
I like Kachingle because I “set it and forget it.” That $5 a month would otherwise go toward terrible, nasty vices. Or cookies. Whatever. But the point is, it’s less than I pay for Netflix, and I know that bloggers who use Kachingle need the support (financial and emotional, for we are fragile little creatures) more than Chris Elliot does and, for that matter, no matter how many times I rent “Groundhog Day,” he’ll never thank me personally.
We hope you will become a “Kachingler,” helping to support online journalism in some of its different forms, including the time- and resource-intensive reporting that we hope to produce. After you become a Kachingler, you’ll also be able to share the sites you support with colleagues, friends, and family, and turn them on to the sites you visit. You can sign up as a Kachingler by “mousing” over the Kachingle Medallion on this page (up and to the right) and clicking on “Sign Up Now”.
But! As we’ve noted, if you donate a bunch to us, we will thank you personally! On video! And if you donate a little, maybe we’ll write an email. You know, we’ll kinda see how it shakes out.
Thanks for your continued support of Big Green Boulder — and thanks for reading this totally ridiculous post.
For the Dave’s entire post please click on the link above – this is an excerpt.
