<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I pay monthly to the NY Times, the WashPost, the Guardian, and Medium.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">They work, I enjoy, they deserve to be paid for their work.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Pamela</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 7, 2019, at 9:14 AM, Owen Densmore <<a href="mailto:owen@backspaces.net" class="">owen@backspaces.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hey, thanks. The Guardian site popped up a plea for support so I finally did.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Which reminded me to ask folks: How often do you contribute to web services and how?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I do a yearly donation to Wikipedia, and subscribe to three or so developers via Patreon</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/" class="">https://www.patreon.com/</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">.. and recently to Open Collective</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <a href="https://opencollective.com/" class="">https://opencollective.com</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">for Rollup. And like the Guardian, spontaneous acts of gratuitous giving :)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I wonder how the web is evolving to paying folks for useful services? The Brave browser folks have built in payments but I've not entirely switched over yet so don't know how well that's going.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Thoughts?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> -- Owen</div></div><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 11:35 PM Jochen Fromm <<a href="mailto:jofr@cas-group.net" class="">jofr@cas-group.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="">Oh, nice. The Guardian has an article about Venice too</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/06/venice-losing-fight-with-tourism-and-flooding" target="_blank" class="">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/06/venice-losing-fight-with-tourism-and-flooding</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Jochen</div></blockquote></div></div></div></div>
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