{"id":166,"date":"2005-03-11T12:42:49","date_gmt":"2005-03-11T19:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=166"},"modified":"2005-03-11T12:42:49","modified_gmt":"2005-03-11T19:42:49","slug":"on-making-money-giving-your-stuff-away-and-what-bloggers-want-from-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/on-making-money-giving-your-stuff-away-and-what-bloggers-want-from-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"On Making Money, Giving Your Stuff Away, and What Bloggers Want From Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the objections to my Contribution Society<\/a> idea, that we should put something in because we’re definitely taking something out, and we’ll be happier and more effective if we do anyway, is that it is somehow contrary to business principles. That is to miss the point. Businesses give stuff away all the time, in order to gain advantage in the market. Whether these contributions stand up to ethical scrutiny is of course a different question. Anyway, i thought a blog by Dave Pollard has some useful insights to help understand what contribution means. Or as he puts it: How to Make Money Giving Stuff Away Free<\/a>. After all, Dave says,<\/p>\n

“Innovative companies are learning that giving something away free can be good for both the top and bottom line. Unscrupulous companies are abusing it. Oligopolies are wringing their hands and calling it theft, and the end of the world. Is this trend inevitable, and how can we make it work to everyone’s benefit?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dave is a smart dude and even if you don’t like to think in green<\/a> he still has some good contrarian ideas to consider. <\/p>\n

On the subject of blog commentary Dave offers these helpful ideas for what bloggers would like from their audience:<\/p>\n

1. constructive criticism, reaction, feedback<\/p>\n

2. ‘thank you’ comments, and why readers liked their post<\/p>\n

3. requests for future posts on specific subjects <\/p>\n

4. foundation articles: posts that writers can build on, on their own blogs<\/p>\n

5. reading lists\/aggregations of material on specific, leading-edge subjects that writers can use as resource material <\/p>\n

6. wonderful examples of writing of a particular genre, that they can learn from <\/p>\n

7. comments that engender lively discussion<\/p>\n

8. guidance on how to write in the strange world of weblogs<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the objections to my Contribution Society idea, that we should put something in because we’re definitely taking something out, and we’ll be happier and more effective if we do anyway, is that it is somehow contrary to business principles. That is to miss the point. Businesses give stuff away all the time, in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-2G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}