We all daily check different websites, blogs, articles and many different contents online. We also produce ourselves content that we publish in different online sites, like we are doing now every week in this blog. How is this content production rewarded? How is it valued? Until now the only way was to press the "like button" in Fb for example, to re tweet, to comment and little more, no real appreciation or profit.
Personally I prefer it this way, free sharing of knowledge and ideas but in this capitalist world that we live in we are supposed to make profit out of everything. As a result there is the
invention of "Flattr": a social micropayment platform that lets you show love for the things you like and help support the people you like and enable them to continue with what they do. Well, that's how they define themselves. Why can't we flatter other's work in other way than money?
Take a look in the webpage and watch the explanatory video about this platform, and, if you have time, check this post too:
http://creativity-online.com/news/a-flattr-adkiller/144028 This post is from a supporter of flattr that has a interesting opinion about its relation with advertising:
"I imagine a digital experience in which everything you like is there for you to access because you pay for it to exist: could advertising simply dissolve and fade away?"
Rocío Leza
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