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Religion And The Dish
A reader writes: I like your blog, but enough. Organized religion = institutionalized superstition, IMHO. My enjoyment of your blog is declining as the god stuff seems to be taking over. Another...
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Religion And The Dish, Ctd
A reader writes: As a nonbeliever in any supernatural deity, I still yearn for moments of transcendence and universal understanding. The Dish’s the online debates you had with Sam Harris about whether...
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Out Of The Ashes Of Dead Trees
[Re-posted from earlier today] The shift in my own mind has happened gradually. Even up to a year ago, I was still getting my New York Times every morning on paper, wrapped in blue plastic. Piles of...
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The Dish Model
Why on earth would anyone pay $19.99 to read the bitchy whines of @sullydish ? Hilariously deluded vanity flight into obscurity. — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) January 2, 2013 Unlike Mr Morgan (prove...
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The Dish Model: The Data
Basically, we've gotten a third of a million dollars in 24 hours, with close to 12,000 paid subscribers (at last count). On average, readers paid almost $8 more than we asked for. To say we're thrilled...
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The Dish Model, Ctd
Jeff Bercovici reports that The Atlantic is also exploring a meter for its digital content: “Paid content is going to be a big area of focus for us,” says Scott Havens, The Atlantic’s president. Havens...
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Dean Starkman cautions that the Dish's new business model "may not be as much of a bellwether as you might think, or hope": To a certain extent, Sullivan and his crew are, if not sui generis, an...
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Just a simple point: Jay Rosen grasps and explains better than I could the reasoning and hope of "mutualized journalism." Here is how Alan Rusbridger defines it: This open and collaborative future for...
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Tyler Cowen worries that the new metered Dish foreshadows the end of "a golden age for the blogosphere": I wish him well with it, but I also hope no one else tries too hard. (Note by the way that...
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Ann Friedman joins the discussion: Whether or not the phrase "personal brand" grosses you out, it’s something any journalist who wants to be employed in another 10 years should be thinking about....
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The Dish’s Core Strength
Conor Friedersdorf, a Dish alum, understands that strength is you: I finally saw the reader inbox in all its glory while guest blogging for Sullivan as he vacationed. It's a gig I did several times,...
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Andrew Sullivan Splits With Daily Beast huff.to/UImcxg via @huffpostmedia Huh? won’t his links want share of income? — Patrick O’Connor (@Pocee) January 2, 2013 Noah Millman, who wishes us well on our...
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The Dish Meter’s Mechanics
Jonathan Glick wonders about them: I suspect the longer pieces that trigger the pay-us reminder will need to be original just because writers being aggregated will get pissed if they use long quotes...
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The Dish’s Core Strength, Ctd
Nat Worden gets our readers: The complex but natural reporting process that is generated by [online journalism] has a certain organic authenticity that is rarely found on TV or radio or in newspapers...
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The Dish Meter’s Mechanics, Ctd
A reader writes: I think you should experiment with the upcoming meter. One of the reasons I gave you $100 (even that is low for the value I get from the Dish every year) is to encourage this...
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The Dish Model, Ctd
A reader writes: I just read that you pay your interns. I applaud that! In the ’90s I did a couple of unpaid internships that paved the way for gainful employment, so I have benefitted from the...
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The Dish Meter’s Mechanics, Ctd
A reader writes: I started reading your blog about two years ago and subscribing to your new model was an easy decision for me. Regarding your meter discussion, I have to disagree with many of your...
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The Awl On The Dish
One of my favorite websites interviewed me about the new Dish when I was still in bed with the flu. Money exchange: Maria Bustillos: I’ve freaked a few atheists out by telling them: You don’t...
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The Dish Model, Ctd
A reader writes: I just read that you pay your interns. I applaud that! In the ’90s I did a couple of unpaid internships that paved the way for gainful employment, so I’ve benefited from the system. I...
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Why I Love The Dish
Two words: Winooski, Vermont. Just one photo – and the readers did the rest.
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A reader writes: I just subscribed. I planned on doing it soon, but hearing that you provide health insurance to your interns made me do it immediately. Even if I never read your blog again, I wanted...
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Eric Zorn makes a key observation about our ad-free, subscription-supported site: [The second big test for Sullivan after he makes his initial fundraising nut will be whether he can sustain his...
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Mathew Ingram sees a new trend among disparate artists and writers: In many ways, conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan and alternative musician Amanda Palmer couldn’t be more different: the former...
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Readers follow up on our health insurance post: My son had what I think is a great idea for companies/merchants: they should have a sticker or something that identifies that they provide health...
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Is The Dish A “Community”?
A reader writes: I’ve known since the day you announced the change that I was going to [tinypass_offer text=”subscribe”], because there is no single thing on the Internet that has enriched my life...
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Planet Money On The Dish
My interview with Zoe Chace of NPR on the Dish’s business plan, if that’s not too ambitious a term for “winging it,” is here.
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The Dish Experiment
The NYT’s Brian Stelter interviewed yours truly about it: This embed is invalid If you want to be a part of this, and maybe help kickstart a new, clearer, sustainable model for new media, you can...
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Amanda Palmer gives a really smart talk on funding the arts and on the intimacy between creators and fans: Felix Salmon uses the talk to discuss the Dish’s [tinypass_offer text=”economic model”] and...
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In the spirit of transparency that we promised for the new independent Dish, above is a screenshot from the first month of affiliate revenue generated by the occasional Amazon links we insert for...
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NPR ran a five minute segment on it on All Things Considered yesterday. Check it out. And don’t forget to subscribe [tinypass_offer text=”here”]. It’s total access to the Dish, infinite scroll,...
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Vimeo is empowering amateur and independent filmmakers to nix the middlemen to sell their content directly to fans: [Vimeo On Demand] lets its paying Pro users (a $199 a year service) sell access to...
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The Dish Model, Ctd
A reader writes: What I find particularly brilliant about the Rob Thomas/Veronica Mars Kickstarter project is that the producers of a good have found a way to exploit certain consumers’ higher...
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by Chris Bodenner Josh Luger at Business Insider interviewed Andrew over the Dish experiment: BI: How do you wrap your ahead around the meter concept? AS: Back in the day I would go to Harvard Square...
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An Award For The Dish!
It’s the Sidney Hillman Award for opinion and analysis for yours truly and the Dish as a whole. The awards are given “to journalists whose work highlights important social and economic issues and helps...
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It’s Hard Out There For A Writer
In a much-discussed NYT essay, Tim Kreider beseeches his fellow writers to stop working for free: A familiar figure in one’s 20s is the club owner or event promoter who explains to your band that they...
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The Dish Subscription Surge
One last note before the New Year begins. When I was asked a little less than a year ago what our ambition was for revenue in 2013, I grabbed a number out of the air. It was our combined editorial...
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The Dish, Year 2: Renewal Time
[Re-posted from yesterday] It’s hard to believe now, but it was only a year ago that a handful of us jumped off the cliff to independence and 25,000 of you caught us. After the first six years as a...
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The Psychology Of Clickbait
Derek Thompson explains why readers tend to prefer light fare to hard news: The culprit isn’t Millennials, or Facebook, or analytics software like Chartbeat. The problem is our brains. The more...
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New Dish New Media Update: A Bumper July
Apologies for being a little late on the monthly report, but it’s great news. July saw our traffic at 900,000 unique visitors and over 6 million pageviews. As for revenue, here’s the monthly chart...
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