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# Monetising Conversation
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2010/05/monetising_conversation/
- Published: 2010-05-17T16:52:10.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-28T13:05:46.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: blog platforms, monetisation, six apart, TypePad

Six Apart have added an interesting feature to their [Typepad](http://www.typepad.com/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com "TypePad") hosted blogging platform. [Typepad Conversations](http://everything.typepad.com/blog/2010/05/six-apart-announces-typepad-conversations.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) is reminiscent of [Vox](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox%5F%28blogging%5Fplatform%29?ref=onemanandhisblog.com "Vox (blogging platform)")‘s QotD – a daily question which people can answer as fodder for their own blogs.

The interesting thing is that some of these questions are sponsored:

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The \[Six Apart blog post\](http://www.sixapart.com/blog/2010/05/announcing-typepad-conversatio.html) goes into a little more detail. I can see some purists twitching at this mixing of “the comversation” and “commerce”, but given how opt-in it is, it looks like an interesting model to me.

Here’s \[a question I answered\](http://adam.tinworth.org/2010/05/donate-them-to-a-good-cause-recycle-them-what-do-you-do-with-your-old-computers-and-phones.html) and the \[conversation page\](http://conversations.typepad.com/questions/68) for that question.

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