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Spot.us brings crowdfunding to journalism

Started by mathewi · 7 months ago

There are plenty of efforts at “citizen journalism” underway in various places, including CNN’s iReport and Vancouver-based NowPublic, but Spot.us is a little different: In this case, the citizens aren’t the ones doing the actual reporting (a ... Continue reading »

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  • digidave

    7 months ago

    Thanks Matt.

    You rock!!

    I do what I can. I also admit that there are a lot of unknowns about community funded reporting. But I am committed to exploring it - because we gotta figure something out.

    It will be an exciting experiment.
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  • mathewi

    7 months ago

    Definitely going to be watching with interest, Dave. Best of luck.
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  • Slorn Habanero

    7 months ago

    I suppose he's not expecting contributors to fund the entire cost of any project, but there still seems to be a free rider issue that will make it very difficult for this to efficiently value any particular project.
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  • mathewi

    7 months ago

    I agree that there could be a "free rider" problem, Slorn. How much that affects things remains to be seen, I guess.
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