Die Presse is one of the major daily newspapers in Austria and this article covers the recent German launch of our service. Two of our early adopters, Bill Mitchell (Poynter Entrepreneurs) and David Röthler(http://politik.netzkompetenz.at/), are quoted. Mitchell explains that neither paywalls nor advertising will provide sufficient revenue for major media companies but crowdfunding (a la Kachingle) justContinue Reading
Ulrike Lange of MedialDigital gave a well thought out keynote Thursday at the Cologne content web forum, discussing in depth the crossroads she sees for building value (e.g., revenue) around original content. In it she covers Kachingle (Lange’s site sports the Kachingle Medallion), the shortsightedness of many in the traditional media who think paywalls willContinue Reading
West Texas Weekly continues to show the Kachingle love with Non-Smoking Website Looking for Responsible Partner: the Kachingle Experiment. I am a proud member of Kachingle (beta)– a micropayment system that takes a $5 monthly payment from member website users and distributes it to member websites. One of the problems in American media is thatContinue Reading
John Tedesco, an investigative reporter for the San Antonio Express-News (or as he puts it on his site, a guy who works for that ink-covered relic called a “newspaper,”), writes in “I am officially a Kachingler”, that he likes “the idea of making it easy for people to pay for online content they appreciate.”
In pre-Internet days, people used to buy newspapers either as their principal source of information or to complement TV sources with analysis and some regional/local news. Given the choice, one would buy the newspaper that best matched one’s political and cultural sensibility. Life was simple!
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