Michael Miner has published an analysis of Kachingle in the weekly Chicago Reader, Pay for News, Then Brag About It, summarized in his subtitle: “Kachingle, a smart combo of micropayments and social networking, has launched.”

Problem solved. Crisis averted. Revenue has finally begun to flow to Internet news sites directly from the heretofore freeloading public. Those of us who feared this day would never come can drink a glass of warm milk and get some sleep.

[E]arly returns don’t establish Kachingle, launched publicly just a month ago, as the wave of the future. They do show that the Silicon Valley-based start-up can function the way Cynthia Typaldos hoped it would. Typaldos’s premise is that most people will pay for the things they value that don’t grow on trees, but only—this is the catch—if the method of payment is fair and easy.