Can upbeat news which delivers solutions to our problem supplant "if it bleeds, it leads"? Maybe - it's certainly proved lucrative for some publishers.
crowd funding
A collection of 8 posts
New business models for journalism
Journalism needs a new business model. Hell, it need many new models. Here's a bunch of them from news:rewired
Typed, a crowdfunded blog platform, closes down today
It’s not often in blogging you get to see a story come to a definitive end, but today I do. Waaaay back in 2015 – almost exactly three years ago – I backed a crowdfunder for a new blogging platform from…
Crowdfunded blog platform Typed announces its forthcoming demise
Typed, the crowdfunded blog platform I wrote about way back when, is dying: For the last 8+ months, Typed.com has been running at a loss. I’ve tried hard to make Typed.com viable, it’s a great platform…
Follow-up on the Brighton tech company quitting the UK
A little follow-up on the idea that a Brighton-based tech company is quitting the UK, because of the current government’s proposals. An unusual number of people got in contact to suggest that calling ind.ie a tech company was…
Four hours to back Ghost...
Just a quick reminder: the Kickstarter to launch Ghost, a new blogging platform (see posts passim), closes in a little under four hours. It’s funded, but is a way short of its stretch goals……
Sounds: Supplied
I’m a big fan of the new emerging funding models that the web is bringing. Yeah, there’s Kickstarter, obviously, but I also like the “bundle” promotions that are appearing for software – and now music. I’ve just bagged…
Hacks/Hackers Brighton - making Matter and exposing eavesdropping
Bobbie Johnson – making Matter matter About a year ago – he got pissed off. He came from The Guardian which has a “troubled” relationship with profit. Why does the meaty, good in-depth investigative stuff he likes not really exist online? Why…