{"id":1776,"date":"2012-03-20T19:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T02:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2012-03-20T19:00:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T02:00:29","slug":"another-day-another-dime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/20\/another-day-another-dime\/","title":{"rendered":"another day another dime"},"content":{"rendered":"

So there’s this social micropayments system called Flattr<\/a>. Members sign up, pay a little a month (\u20ac2), then can, on sites with a Flattr button, click on that button. The click is logged. At the end of the month, the \u20ac2 is divided across all the buttons you clicked on, less 10% which goes to Flattr, which is how they make money. Wikipedia says it’s been around since 2010<\/a> but only went really public in 2011.<\/p>\n

Have you even ever heard of this thing before, or seen a Flattr button? I mean, it’s the kind of thing that’d be cool, if people used it, but I really doubt people would. Certainly my experiences with online revenue make it seem unlikely – I’ll make more money at a single good show than I have lifetime<\/em> online. (That’s why I’ve been focused on YouTube lately – YouTube is far more plays per day than Bandcamp, CD Baby, or iTunes or any of that, and since I want shows, well…)<\/p>\n

So have you even heard of this? Do you use it? Do you know anybody who does? Now that you know about it, would<\/em> you use it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So there’s this social micropayments system called Flattr. Members sign up, pay a little a month (\u20ac2), then can, on sites with a Flattr button, click on that button. The click is logged. At the end of the month, the \u20ac2 is divided across all the buttons you clicked on, less 10% which goes to [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-of-indie-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}