http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/12/07/diggers-will-find-a-way-to-get-paid/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/12/07/diggers-will-find-a-way-to-get-paid/comment-page-1/#comment-117970 Trying to Be like Bill Gates » Birthday boy Gates must hold off on one celebration (Seattle Times) Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:02:17 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/12/07/diggers-will-find-a-way-to-get-paid/#comment-117970 [...] We also can look at this information to… Bill Gates has a birthday coming up, but it doesn’t look like his staff will be getting him a new operating system. Windows Vista is nearly… Somthing like that have Digg Account, Will Submit One of the questions that’s continually raised about Digg (and indeed, many other social media sites) is for how long users will tolerate doing the manual labor for sites without receiving any sort of financial remuneration. Obviously, the idea with something like Digg is that the users’ work benefits themselves by creating the site — in essence, free access to the flow of stories from the collective body of readers is the payment for submitting and ranking stories. Some social media sites have tried to change this by paying people to submit items to the site, but that’s something Digg has sworn it will never do. However, apparently popular Digg users are being solicited by companies (via Techmeme) to promote their stories in exchange for payment. It’s hardly surprising, but it’s an interesting problem for Digg, or any site where the “top” users hold a lot of influence. It’s a question of incentives: if Digg offered users a way to profit, would they be less interested in schemes to profit from selling their influence and gaming the system? Some sites are already using revenue-sharing plans, where submitters of popular stories and highly-rated opinions get a share of ad revenues. Of course, even with such a plan in place, there will be some users that will still sell their “services” to others seeking to gain some online attention, but if a revenue-sharing system is viable, it would remove (or at least lessen) the incentive to do so for many users. Some people try to frame the issue of payment almost as a moral one, that it’s only right for these users to be paid for their work. But moral superiority isn’t the main concern for social media sites here — they may be forced to start paying users to try and protect the integrity of their systems.Did you know that Will means deliberate intention or wish: Let it be known that I took this course of action against my will.. This also saved me time town Celebrates With Mystery Pumpkins Associated Press - There were pumpkins left on front porches and at front gates, on the front and back steps of a church and all along the … It’s kinda cool,” said employee Bill Coyle. “It’s kinda unique. Throughout the town there’s probably a couple of hundred of …Did you know that Town means the residents of a town: The whole town was upset at the news.. This also saved me time microsoft says McAfee “inaccurate, inflammatory” (Reuters) [...] [...] We also can look at this information to… Bill Gates has a birthday coming up, but it doesn’t look like his staff will be getting him a new operating system. Windows Vista is nearly… Somthing like that have Digg Account, Will Submit One of the questions that’s continually raised about Digg (and indeed, many other social media sites) is for how long users will tolerate doing the manual labor for sites without receiving any sort of financial remuneration. Obviously, the idea with something like Digg is that the users’ work benefits themselves by creating the site — in essence, free access to the flow of stories from the collective body of readers is the payment for submitting and ranking stories. Some social media sites have tried to change this by paying people to submit items to the site, but that’s something Digg has sworn it will never do. However, apparently popular Digg users are being solicited by companies (via Techmeme) to promote their stories in exchange for payment. It’s hardly surprising, but it’s an interesting problem for Digg, or any site where the “top” users hold a lot of influence. It’s a question of incentives: if Digg offered users a way to profit, would they be less interested in schemes to profit from selling their influence and gaming the system? Some sites are already using revenue-sharing plans, where submitters of popular stories and highly-rated opinions get a share of ad revenues. Of course, even with such a plan in place, there will be some users that will still sell their “services” to others seeking to gain some online attention, but if a revenue-sharing system is viable, it would remove (or at least lessen) the incentive to do so for many users. Some people try to frame the issue of payment almost as a moral one, that it’s only right for these users to be paid for their work. But moral superiority isn’t the main concern for social media sites here — they may be forced to start paying users to try and protect the integrity of their systems.Did you know that Will means deliberate intention or wish: Let it be known that I took this course of action against my will.. This also saved me time town Celebrates With Mystery Pumpkins Associated Press – There were pumpkins left on front porches and at front gates, on the front and back steps of a church and all along the … It’s kinda cool,” said employee Bill Coyle. “It’s kinda unique. Throughout the town there’s probably a couple of hundred of …Did you know that Town means the residents of a town: The whole town was upset at the news.. This also saved me time microsoft says McAfee “inaccurate, inflammatory” (Reuters) [...]

]]> http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/12/07/diggers-will-find-a-way-to-get-paid/comment-page-1/#comment-112162 Is Digg getting better, or worse? » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:54:45 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/12/07/diggers-will-find-a-way-to-get-paid/#comment-112162 [...] If you’ve been following the blogosphere, there has been a fair bit of controversy about Digg — not about it broadening its reach into general news and other areas (in fact, there’s been surprisingly little comment about that) but about it being rigged, about submitters taking money under the table (which I wrote about here), and so on. Jason Clarke has argued that Digg is useless. [...] [...] If you’ve been following the blogosphere, there has been a fair bit of controversy about Digg — not about it broadening its reach into general news and other areas (in fact, there’s been surprisingly little comment about that) but about it being rigged, about submitters taking money under the table (which I wrote about here), and so on. Jason Clarke has argued that Digg is useless. [...]

]]> http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/12/07/diggers-will-find-a-way-to-get-paid/comment-page-1/#comment-112082 mathewingram.com/media » Is Digg getting better, or worse? Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:02:26 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/12/07/diggers-will-find-a-way-to-get-paid/#comment-112082 [...] If you’ve been following the blogosphere, there has been a fair bit of controversy about Digg — not about it broadening its reach into general news and other areas (in fact, there’s been surprisingly little comment about that) but about it being rigged, about submitters taking money under the table (which I wrote about here), and so on. Jason Clarke has argued that Digg is useless. [...] [...] If you’ve been following the blogosphere, there has been a fair bit of controversy about Digg — not about it broadening its reach into general news and other areas (in fact, there’s been surprisingly little comment about that) but about it being rigged, about submitters taking money under the table (which I wrote about here), and so on. Jason Clarke has argued that Digg is useless. [...]

]]> http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/12/07/diggers-will-find-a-way-to-get-paid/comment-page-1/#comment-109955 JD on EP: Me on Digg Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:14:50 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/12/07/diggers-will-find-a-way-to-get-paid/#comment-109955 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] Me on Digg: No news here... just some policy background I'd like to get into the public record. I've read Digg for awhile, but refrained from joining because identity is not assured, and the service is vulnerable to gaming... I don't want Adobe to be accused of astroturfing Digg. But last week I finally did join, under my own name and address, with the intent of doing regular outbound-support work in comments. I do not plan on introducing articles to Digg, or voting articles up or down... my plan is to only do support work in comments. Let me know if you see any problems or risks with this plan, thanks. [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] Me on Digg: No news here… just some policy background I’d like to get into the public record. I’ve read Digg for awhile, but refrained from joining because identity is not assured, and the service is vulnerable to gaming… I don’t want Adobe to be accused of astroturfing Digg. But last week I finally did join, under my own name and address, with the intent of doing regular outbound-support work in comments. I do not plan on introducing articles to Digg, or voting articles up or down… my plan is to only do support work in comments. Let me know if you see any problems or risks with this plan, thanks. [...]

]]> http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/12/07/diggers-will-find-a-way-to-get-paid/comment-page-1/#comment-98649 TechDirt | Digital Squeeze Consulting Convergence Sun, 10 Dec 2006 19:53:40 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/12/07/diggers-will-find-a-way-to-get-paid/#comment-98649 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] Have Digg Account, Will Submit December 8, 2006 - 2:25pm One of the questions that's continually raised about Digg (and indeed, many other social media sites) is for how long users will tolerate doing the manual labor for sites without receiving any sort of financial remuneration. Obviously, the idea with something like Digg is that the users' work benefits themselves by creating the site -- in essence, free access to the flow of stories from the collective body of readers is the payment for submitting and ranking stories. Some social media sites have tried to change this by paying people to submit items to the site, but that's something Digg has sworn it will never do. However, apparently popular Digg users are being solicited by companies (via Techmeme) to promote their stories in exchange for payment. It's hardly surprising, but it's an interesting problem for Digg, or any site where the "top" users hold a lot of influence. It's a question of incentives: if Digg offered users a way to profit, would they be less interested in schemes to profit from selling their influence and gaming the system? Some sites are already using revenue-sharing plans, where submitters of popular stories and highly-rated opinions get a share of ad revenues. Of course, even with such a plan in place, there will be some users that will still sell their "services" to others seeking to gain some online attention, but if a revenue-sharing system is viable, it would remove (or at least lessen) the incentive to do so for many users. Some people try to frame the issue of payment almost as a moral one, that it's only right for these users to be paid for their work. But moral superiority isn't the main concern for social media sites here -- they may be forced to start paying users to try and protect the integrity of their systems. [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] Have Digg Account, Will Submit December 8, 2006 – 2:25pm One of the questions that’s continually raised about Digg (and indeed, many other social media sites) is for how long users will tolerate doing the manual labor for sites without receiving any sort of financial remuneration. Obviously, the idea with something like Digg is that the users’ work benefits themselves by creating the site — in essence, free access to the flow of stories from the collective body of readers is the payment for submitting and ranking stories. Some social media sites have tried to change this by paying people to submit items to the site, but that’s something Digg has sworn it will never do. However, apparently popular Digg users are being solicited by companies (via Techmeme) to promote their stories in exchange for payment. It’s hardly surprising, but it’s an interesting problem for Digg, or any site where the “top” users hold a lot of influence. It’s a question of incentives: if Digg offered users a way to profit, would they be less interested in schemes to profit from selling their influence and gaming the system? Some sites are already using revenue-sharing plans, where submitters of popular stories and highly-rated opinions get a share of ad revenues. Of course, even with such a plan in place, there will be some users that will still sell their “services” to others seeking to gain some online attention, but if a revenue-sharing system is viable, it would remove (or at least lessen) the incentive to do so for many users. Some people try to frame the issue of payment almost as a moral one, that it’s only right for these users to be paid for their work. But moral superiority isn’t the main concern for social media sites here — they may be forced to start paying users to try and protect the integrity of their systems. [...]

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