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Kachingle: A route to revenue through community crowd-funding

Saturday, March 20, 2010

In the new, revenue-shy era of online publishing, knowledgeable “amateurs” and self-employed journalists like me publish (theoretically) on an equal footing with Big Media. Hyperlocal sites are providing tiny communities and large towns with real, connected online news; expert, lay commentators on everything from sport to fishing are giving away the kind of insight and [...]

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When travel bloggers say too much: bad taste or freedom of expression?

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Here’s a strange tale. A young travel blogger, Steve Wade from Edinburgh, visits Thailand as part of an East Asia tour. While in Bangkok he takes part in some of the city’s legendarily seedy after-hours activities, gets drunk and has sex with prostitutes. Not much unusual there – thousands of Western men do the same [...]

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