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* **Sponsored content.** The next step up from banner ads is the “infomercial approach”, directly involving sponsors in the content creation process. This usually takes the form of running articles written by or commissioned by advertisers, perhaps without clear indications that money has changed hands. *The Atlantic* suffered a serious reader backlash after running a sponsored article by the Church of Scientology that many took to be an editorial opinion piece/^[<http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/202316/atlantic-introduces-sponsored-content-guidelines-that-address-the-scientology-incident/>] [Contently](https://contently.com/)'s entire business model revolves around producing and managing content that builds particular brands' media image. This business model obviously does not serve the public interest of integrity and independent reporting.
* **Outsourcing.** Many newsrooms have become increasingly reliant on pulling articles from wire services, reproducing social media content from Twitter or Facebook, or even outsourcing routine news items (such as high school sports and obituaries) to distant aggregation services like [Journatic](http://journatic.com/), which recruits its writers for pennies a story in the Philippines.^[<http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/179555/journatic-staffer-takes-this-american-life-inside-outsourced-journalism/>] Besides the concerns about exploitation of workers in the developing world, this degrades the quality of journalism by reducing editorial freedom and the possibility of fact-checking.
* **[Banyan Project](http://banyanproject.coop/).** An attempt to develop a franchisable consumer cooperative model for local online newspapers, with a pilot project in Haverhill, MA, a mid-size city with no daily newspaper. Consumer-owned cooperative newspapers have long been successful in [other](http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/) [countries](http://www.taz.de/), but this is a new model in US journalism. All articles would be available free of charge but use of the site's more advanced civic engagement features would be restricted to paid subscribers or to citizen-reporter contributors. Unfortunately, the business model for the umbrella franchise cooperative is based around licensing its proprietary content management/social media/backoffice software package.
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* Scope: A progressive news outlet which licenses articles CC-BY-SA
* Issues: taking a political stance boldly by supporting them could affect our reputation. We at Snowdrift.coop want to be FLO-focused and ethically-focused on economic justice but not to otherwise be too politically bold. We don't want to endorse nor reject the more libertarian side of FLO-supporting world. It's also unclear sometimes about Common Dreams' exact sources as they often quote or seem related to other articles yet mark CC-BY-SA boldly on everything.
* Scope: some sort of collection / metadata system for peer-reviewed research articles, "a collaborative layer of knowledge on top of academic publications" like sharing metadata, kinda like hypothes.is but just for academic articles
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third-party blog posts and magazine articles etc.
* [Snowdrift.coop: Funding for free projects](http://lwn.net/Articles/625051) by Jake Edge for LWN.net
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* $3,477.50 legal costs for assistance with updated Articles of Incorporation
At the beginning of 2014, with initial Articles (see [Legal](/legal)) accepted by the State of Michigan and an IRS EIN, we opened a non-interest-bearing checking account with the [National Cooperative Bank](http://ncb.coop).
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## Snowdrift.coop articles about public goods and software funding
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[Fairware](http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/07/monetizing-open-source-with-fairware-interview-with-virgil-dupras/) was a "soft" ransom system created by Virgil Dupras. He created a tracking system for the number of hours a developer logs on a project multiplied by an hourly wage. Each program contained a pop-up message that informed the user of how many development hours had yet to be compensated by donations. Any user who contributed (or who emailed Dupras stating financial hardship) would receive a code to turn off the popups. After all developers had been compensated, popups would turn off for all users. Because the source code was BSD-licensed, everything was fully FLO from the beginning, and the popups could be removed by hand if the user wished (most users didn't bother to do so). Although he achieved a revenue stream comparable to shareware, Dupras [abandoned the system](http://www.hardcoded.net/articles/phasing-out-fairware) in 2013 after starting a full-time job and ceasing major development on most of his projects.
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**Page titles should use Title Case**: capitalize the first word and all other words except articles and prepositions.
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recordings, videos, and articles covering music theory, philosophy,
- communications/targeted-messaging (1 matching lines) [show matches]
Articles on the status quo in various fields under [Market Reearch](/market-research):
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See our [press](/press) page for particular articles written about Snowdrift.coop and general press info.
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* Main content is "Press Highlights" with links to articles etc
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* migrate main articles
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This discussion of game theory is just one part of the context around funding public goods, and this article is part of the broader [About Snowdrift.coop](/about) collection of articles. Beyond addressing the game dynamics in the design of our basic fundraising mechanism, we need to address [**social psychological factors**](psychology) in order to inspire a resilient community of public goods supporters who care about the world we are building together.
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Researching many articles about the economics of Free/Open software, Aaron posts the following idea within a comment on a [Power Base article about Fairware](https://web.archive.org/web/20150414193004/http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/07/monetizing-open-source-with-fairware-interview-with-virgil-dupras/) (a system to transparently report invested time and ask the community to compensate developers)
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* Read organized articles, mission statement, and more details in the