One area in which Kachingle adoption has been very quick is among new-mode independent investigative reporting organizations. Sites like Center for Investigative Reporting, , Center for Public Integrity and Common Language Project are filling the gap left where the major media companies used to go deep into important topics.
Quite a few of them have written about Kachingle and we’ve gathered together highpoints here:
Center for Investigative Reporting: “Support CIR through micropayments using Kachingle”
Center for Investigative Reporting is the nation’s oldest nonprofit investigative news organization, producing multimedia reporting that has impact and is relevant to people’s lives and an early Kachingle participant.
Center for Public Integrity: “With Kachingle, Center Debuts Crowd-Funding Attempt”
The Center for Public Integrity produces original, responsible investigative journalism on issues of public concern in the US and around the world and has adopted Kachingle as a tool to support their efforts.
Quite a few other news and news-related sites are part of the Kachingle network as well, including ChicagoTalks, West Texas Weekly, Boulder, CO daily paper DailyCamera.com, CyberJournalist.net, Global Free Media, The Blog Peoria Project, Washington’s Blog, YourArlington.com, Ohio Politics Online, Ozarks Unbound, Press, Peoria Pundit, Uppity Wisconsin, and We Like It Here (Minn/St. Paul).
Nice writeup of Kachingle by German media analysts Famos Mediens: Crowdfunding mit Kachingle.
Kachingle, ein kalifornisches Start-up, wartet hier mit einer fantastischen Idee auf: Der Dienst ist quasi eine Crowdfunding-Netzwerk.
Kachingle ist noch jungfräulich, aber haben sich erstmal viele Kachingler angemeldet, kann der Dienst eine willkommene zusätzliche Einkommensquelle für Online-Publisher darstellen. Endlich könnte auch die Währung der Freunde und Followers in Bares umgewandelt werden. Einen noch stärkeren Ausbau in Richtung Social Media würde ich daher empfehlen.
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Kachingle , a California start-up wait here a fantastic idea with: The service is almost a Crowd Funding Network.
Kachingle is still virgin, but have many Kachingler first logged on, the service can represent a welcome additional source of revenue for online publishers. Finally, could the currency of the Friends and Followers are converted into cash. An even greater expansion in the direction of social media, I would recommend.
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.
Kim Gaskins is the Director of Content Development for Latitude, an international research consultancy exploring how Web technologies can further enhance human experiences. She recently published Kachingle: The Future of Free?, an analysis of Kachingle inspired after the Lattitude team was “intrigued by the simple elegance of the idea.”
First, we simply like the notion that people are willing to pay for something of value to them. (Latitude Research has written extensively on Radiohead’s In Rainbows album “experiment,” which implemented a pick-your-own-price model for fans–free included–and went on to rake in the digital profits nevertheless).
We like that if Kachingle, or another comprehensive, voluntary-pay model was widely adopted, it might raise the standards for content quality (or connect them more directly to the people actually engaging with the content); it’d tie content quality, user engagement, and user loyalty more concretely to revenue.
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The Center for Public Integrity produces original, responsible investigative journalism on issues of public concern in the US and around the world and has adopted Kachingle as a tool to support their efforts.
As conversations continue about what financial models will be the most effective for sustaining journalism in the future, we think that crowd-funding seems like a particularly viable option. And we know that our regular readers value the investigative work of The Center and understand that it is not free — it takes financial support to produce hard-hitting, independent watchdog journalism.
At this early stage, we don’t yet know if Kachingle will be a success, but we do know that if it’s going to, we need our online audience to voluntarily contribute to our work. And, the simple truth is we need the financial backing of engaged citizens to underwrite our brand of no-stone-unturned investigative journalism. We’d love for you to be associated with The Center for Public Integrity as a member, contributor, or Kachingler.
Red Ferret, a 10 year old ‘eclectic tech blog, covering gadgets, software, cool sites and tech trivia in a fun and offbeat way,’ has taken a look at Kachingle and like what they see. Nigel Powell, the Editor-in-Chief, wrote about us today:
Kachingle is a new micropayment system that relies on lots of people allocating small amounts of money to an account which automatically disburses pennies according to the places you visit often. It actually sounds as if it could work, but of course we’ll only know when huge numbers of people are happily using it.
We also believe that because it takes real time, money, and insight to create and maintain valued online content and services, a business model for sustaining them must be available. Advertising, freemium, product sales, and subscription business models are partial answers, but Kachingle is a more direct mechanism that can complement these forms of revenue generation.
Center for Investigative Reporting is the nation’s oldest nonprofit investigative news organization, producing multimedia reporting that has impact and is relevant to people’s lives and an early Kachingle participant.
[Y]ou may want one simple way to support a variety of sites you like and depend on.
Introducing Kachingle, one of the first crowdsourcing services that you can use to support your favorite online news sites and blogs. Kachingle is simple, user-centric and user-controlled alternative to cumbersome subscriptions, paywalls, and pay-per-article plans some media outlets are considering.
We hope you will become a Kachingler, helping to support journalism’s future online, including the time and resource intensive investigative reporting that CIR produces. Your support alone won’t save investigative reporting but if enough people decide to start supporting the journalism they care about, collectively we have the power to help ensure that this kind of reporting thrives in the future. Once you become a Kachingler, you can share which sites you support with colleagues, friends, and family (and soon Twitter followers and others), and turn them on to the sites you visit.
Anything that can be digitized will be napsterized. Kachingle is a business model for the inevitable future of “free”.
Here’s the presentation on Slideshare…there’s also a large (70MB!) version with a narrative by me (Cynthia, the Chief Kachingler).
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