Dear Katherine,
I expect you already have steemit.com under consideration as a potential revenue source for the guardian. Steemit is a blogging block chain where posters earn cryptocurrency - steem - through their content.
A poster @heymattsokol was talking about it this morning in terms of the New York Times - you would open an account for The Guardian, mirror posting articles which are upvoted (earning rewards), and similarly for comments that are made by other posters.
It's a young site, ranked about 1,500 with Alexa.com, has about a million accounts globally of which 60,000 are active. It has some teething problems, but also huge growth potential.
I've been a member for just under a year, I'm still learning how it works, but I was interested in the potential for financing investigative journalism. (The trending page is a tragedy - but your influence might help to change that if you were interested in joining the platform).
Best wishes,
Shani
Excellent idea my friend!
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Thank you!
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I actually mentioned Steemit to a BBC freelancer who writes lovely and interesting travel and curio type articles and editorials for the BBC mainly, but her response was a little muted, as it was from an Aviation journo friend.
I suspect Steemit is a little 'off-base' or rough and ready for the mainstream media at the moment but it would be nice to see a few official media outlets come aboard.
The only one I can think of was 'Engadget' but they don't seem to post anymore.
I am sure that some of the crap posted on here is coming from former Sunday Sport 'journos' however !
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I thought the Guardian might be interested as they've had a more progressive approach to digital publishing. But even as I sent it, I thought that much more corporate presentation might spoil what I like about steemit - it's rough and readiness. We won't have to worry, though, my email was returned as undeliverable. In spite of what they say on the website, you can't just email the editor.
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This is a good idea that could be applied to other papers and mags (NewScientist and craft mags and sites of course - dream on ... ).
I do hope they share your vision @shanibeer 🌺
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New Scientist would be interesting, and I'd enjoy Private Eye, but I think that has always been resolutely non-digital!
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You may want to also check out http://wikitribune.com co-founded by Jimmy Wales of wikipedia @shanibeer
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Thank you, I'll have a look 😎
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