Audience as Assignment Editor
I was just reading Henry Copeland's post about Josh Marshall raising nearly $5,000 in 24 hours to blog from the New Hampshire primary and I was reminded of something Matt Welch suggested a year ago. Matt proposed Targeted Blogger Fundraising and I did my own little rant on it a few days later.

Since then I've seen several blogger appeals to readers after a laptop dies, or server fees needed to be paid, but I'm not sure how often readers have paid to send their favorite bloggers to cover an event - along the lines of the audience becoming the assignment editor/publisher offering the paycheck. I think it's still a good idea.
- posted by Amy @ 10/28/2003 09:49:00 AM