{"id":581,"date":"2002-05-13T14:03:56","date_gmt":"2002-05-13T21:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/05\/jarvis-big-idea\/"},"modified":"2002-05-13T14:03:56","modified_gmt":"2002-05-13T21:03:56","slug":"jarvis-big-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/05\/13\/jarvis-big-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Jarvis’ Big Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t— WarLog: World War III by Jeff Jarvis<\/a> says:<\/p>\n


\nI propose the creation of The Weblog Foundation for the advancement of weblogs and online media.
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\nThe foundation would support weblogs with hosting, software, and honorariums for a wide array of selected webloggers. It would raise money from sponsor\/underwriters, who would receive advertising on selected weblogs, as well as from technology underwriters, readers’ contributions, and other activities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s an intriguing notion, drawing a lot of buzz from Photodude<\/a>, Dailypundit<\/a>, Instapundit<\/a>, Eric Olsen<\/a>, and others. Off the top of my bald head, I’d counter-propose a quasi-standards body to work on the long-term issues affecting blogging, such as micropayments, syndication, and microcontent management; these issues have the potential to pay back more than subsidized blogging, but I have a day job so YMMV.

It’s good that people are taking a constructive direction on the Future of Blogging today (instead of making scurrilous conjectures about the motives for wanting a discussion,) I’d suggest that we pay extra-special attention to the needs of actual writers, such as Ken Layne<\/a> and Matt Welch<\/a>; these guys aren’t looking for subsidies (which would be hard to administer given the issues raised by Denton<\/a>), as much as a means to get paid for the honest work they do; that’s where retrieval, syndication, and payment come into the picture.

I used to joke that we made a mistake in the design of the Internet by making the “money” module a sub-class of “porn;” let’s do a redesign where it’s a subclass of “publishing.”\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— WarLog: World War III by Jeff Jarvis says: I propose the creation of The Weblog Foundation for the advancement of weblogs and online media. The foundation would support weblogs with hosting, software, and honorariums for a wide array of selected webloggers. It would raise money from sponsor\/underwriters, who would receive advertising on selected weblogs, … Continue reading “Jarvis’ Big Idea”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-9n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}