Announced the results of a year of reader donations received by the journalist via the Internet

    The deputy editor-in-chief of the Russian Reporter magazine, a notably popular journalist Sokolov-Mitrich , set up an experiment called Thanks Journalism : for a whole year he indicated a hyperlink in each of his articles (and if not in each, then in the vast majority of them) to a page (more precisely, a blog post ) with payment details (Yandex.Money, Webmoney, PayPal and Moneybookers) for grateful readers who want to directly thank the author for the money.

    And today Sokolov-Mitrich announced the results: from March 15, 2011 to March 15, 2012, the amount of the fee paid to the journalist by his readers amounted to 42,723 rubles 33 kopecks.

    Like a number of the results of Khabrahabr’s squad , the result of the Sokolov-Mitrich experiment leads me to the following conclusion: the modern network community still does not give the author (even significant enough and well-known!) The opportunity to live on, relying only on the results of the squad (that is, to live by social giving).

    Sokolov-Mitrich, however, does not lose confidence that future technologies are in crowd technology. (This confidence he gained 15 March 2011, after reading a publication Gregory Tarasevich " Online utopia " in the "Russianreporter. " The publication is really interesting, I recommend that you read it.)

    For illustration, we used a photograph of a piggy bank handed out on Wikimedia Commons under a GFDL license.

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