DISQUS

For some reason, I just caught this post. I will say this, though - bloggers of small traffic size relying on Google for revenue is a poor idea, simply because of the money involved.

Of all the monetization solutions I've tried, they're one of the lowest payers.

A great alternative is project wonderful. I made, on average, 4x revenue I made with AdSense on Project Wonderful.

Heya.

I actually subscribe to the Joost blog. They add tons of content on a near-daily basis. Most of it is nominally interesting (most of it should have been added at launch, most of it isn't yet on Hulu), but very few shows have much geek cred (at least that I've seen), or if they have it, they haven't come out on slow news days.

That said, I'm not a Joost user. I'd love to be, because I much prefer a standalone utility I could run on a box made for my TV than something in a web page. Unfortunately, I can't cheaply make a box that fits the dumb system requirements of Joost. Even my brand spankin' new Dell laptop is lacking something minor in the graphics card department preventing Joost from running properly.

I want it to succeed. I don't think it will.

In the end, it'll come down to the editors. They're the one that has final say. There are times when I want to go off on a political riff over at Mash, but if the tech angle isn't significant enough, one of the other editors will reign me in. If a Gawker blog (or any other blog that adopts this philosophy/incentive program) slips into sensational oblivion, blame the editors, not the writers.

I don't buy the platform is the gem thing, either.

PVR/DVR/Media Center software has been doing the same thing for years, attempting to become the platform. I love Dave Winer, I think he's a genius, but I think this is a miss.

Quite interesting!

I'd be very interested to cover this and contribute on such a project. I'm not an IP expert, but it is an area I enjoy reading and learning about, and I've followed many IP related stories over the years (not to mention being a content producer since adolescence). definitely keep me/us/everyone in the loop on this.

Yar, that's exactly what it does.

To go along with what Dasher is saying (if anyone is still reading the comments on this post) -

When insight providers move towards news providers, they get a broader readerbase, and therefore more money. This is a relatively simple transition to make, and we've seen it happen several times in the blogosphere.

On the other hand moving from news provider to insight provider proves more difficult, as author's insight tends to be far more limited in scope than what he can casually provide news about.

I definitely think that the two things will be tied together in a serious way - however I think that since the gPhone has been in the works a whole lot longer than the initiative for this social network that they are, in fact, two separate initiatives.