Noel, I'm reading to be rocked. Tell me how this one will be different than the others, I'm honestly curious because I do believe in this stuff, I just dont have many/any stories of it actually working. Show me that it works!
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:42 PM, noel hidalgo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this project is the brainchild of a very good buddy of mine, David > Cohn. without a doubt, it will rock our world. > > n > > > On 10 Nov 2008, at 14:38, schlomo rabinowitz wrote: > > > Hey all > > From the Knight-Ridder challenge/contest, here is one of the winners: > > > > <http://spot.us/> > > > > From the site: Spot.Us is a nonprofit project to pioneer "community > > funded > > reporting." Through Spot.Us the public can commission investigations > > on > > important and perhaps overlooked stories. Donations are tax > > deductable and > > if a news organization buys exclusive rights to the content, your > > donation > > will be reimbursed. Otherwise content is made available through a > > Creative > > Commons license. > > <br> > > > > More and more of these sorts of sites are popping up; I'm starting > > to think > > about them as UGC 2.0 sites, where now you are still making all the > > content, > > but the site is trying to make you feel good about it (and hopefully > > give > > you a couple dollars to boot, but dont count on it). > > > > Do you think there is a long-term market for this sort of stuff? Or > > does it > > just sound good on paper? > > > > -- > > Schlomo Rabinowitz > > http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress > > http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking > > AIM:schlomochat > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
