{"id":5217,"date":"2010-04-06T23:20:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T04:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/?p=5217"},"modified":"2020-05-11T14:38:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T19:38:36","slug":"i-am-officially-a-kachingler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/06\/i-am-officially-a-kachingler\/","title":{"rendered":"I am officially a Kachingler"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kachingle\"I first learned about Kachingle<\/a> last year from Steve Outing<\/a>. I thought Kachingle was a cool idea, waited for it to launch, and then promptly forgot about it. Then I read this post by the Center for Public Integrity<\/a> today saying it joined Kachingle.<\/p>\n

Kachingle’s still around?<\/p>\n

Turns out, Kachingle has launched in beta, and at long last I got to sign up with a convenient service to pay my favorite blogs and news organizations. But so far, it looks like I’m one of only a relatively few Kachinglers out there.<\/p>\n

What exactly is Kachingle? You sign up with a Paypal account, commit to $5 a month, and when you visit a Web site that has a Kachingle badge, you can choose to support the site. Kachingle remembers your favorite sites, and your monthly $5 will be distributed among them, based on your surfing habits. Here’s a nice overview<\/a>. I have yet to get a badge for my blog, but I signed up as a Kachingler to pay the blogs I like. (Update:<\/em> Just got my Kachingle Medallion and already have some followers — thanks.)<\/p>\n

I appreciate Kachingle for its ease of use. Once you click on that Kachingle badge, paying your favorite blog a little pocket change is automatic and easy. That’s a big deal at a time when news organizations doing expensive watchdog journalism<\/a> are looking for new revenue streams on the Internet.<\/p>\n

But to really work, a lot of Web sites and Web surfers have to know about Kachingle and sign up. And so far the top Kachingle site is … Steve Outing’s blog, with 53 people supporting it on Kachingle — including me. Outing has earned $65.08<\/a> during a four-month period from Kachingle, but it’s still early and he’s hopeful it’s the beginning of an upward trend. “I still have a sense that this model can take off,” Outing wrote. “We\u2019ll see. I do know that individual tips jars on sites and blogs won\u2019t be worth much; ask the Miami Herald<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

I haven’t seen an explanation from Kachingle about how RSS feeds work into its business model. Do you have to visit the actual Web site to give a blog a financial boost? If so, bloggers will miss out on some profits.
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\nRelated: Sign up for blog updates from John Tedesco<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I’ll give Kachingle a chance and see how it works. I like the idea of making it easy for people to pay for online content they appreciate. But do enough readers care enough to actually sign up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I first learned about Kachingle last year from Steve Outing. I thought Kachingle was a cool idea, waited for it to launch, and then promptly forgot about it. Then I read this post by the Center for Public Integrity today saying it joined Kachingle. Kachingle’s still around? Turns out, Kachingle has launched in beta, and … <\/p>\n

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