If the New York Times Did a Kickstarter Project
Mike Linksvayer wrote a blog post the other day about what the New York Times’ new payment system would look like as a Kickstarter project. When I got the “important notice” from the NYT in my inbox last week, I thought, “Here it begins!” but seeing as when it comes to most things newsworthy I have the attention span of a five-year-old, I never got to the how-to-pay part.
Linksvayer assures us that the Times’ plan is too complicated for its own good, and really the whole thing would work best as a Kickstarter project: funding goal + tiered reward options + the assurance that you will only be charged if they do indeed survive the death of print/revolt of the internet. Behold his original post here or check out the meat of it below.
