Kachingle founder Cynthia Typaldos has been traveling in Germany and Austria this week, and has been interviewed by several blogger and journalists while meeting with Site Owners and others in what has become a booming market for the concept of using social cents to support your favorite content.
Ulrike Lange interviewed Cynthia as part of our German language launch and was interested in four main topics (posted in German and English, the German version has also been posted at Carta). Here are excerpts of Cynthia’s responses:
Anything that can be digitized will be napsterized. Kachingle is a business model for the inevitable future of “free”.
Notes from the “From Gatekeeper to Information Valet: Work Plans for Sustaining Journalism” conference in Washington DC this past Wednesday: Panel included former Time Mag Editor Walter Isaacson, president/CEO of The Aspen Institute; Merrill Brown, senior strategist for Journalism Online; Matt Mankins of In-a-Moon; Scott Karp, CEO and co-founder of Publish2 ; and our ownContinue Reading
Anyone who’s been following the dialogue on the future of journalism knows Kachingle is but one of many revenue models being considered by media companies and individual bloggers. Now, for the first time, proponents of three of the different approaches will come together for a panel discussion Wednesday, May 27, in Washington, D.C. Walter Isaacson,Continue Reading
I will be speaking twice at this upcoming conference in Atlanta: Public Media Conference February 17- 21, 2009 My speaking slots are on the afternoon of Wednesday Feb 18th and afternoon of Friday Feb 20th. I will be at the conference thru the morning of Feb 21st. Kachingle also has a booth where I willContinue Reading
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