I’m so excited I can hardly contain myself. I’ve been wanting to write this blog ALL day, thinking about what I would say, and how I can make everyone as excited as I am. This post is all about content creation, and how we can create a Xanga-like community, and GET PAID TO BLOG. Seriously, I just said, get paid to blog. This is totally not a scam. Everyone who got Google Adsense knew THAT was a scam, right? I mean, personally, I paid for premium Xanga JUST so I could have Adwords. It seemed like a good idea, right? Get paid from advertisers to blog? After a while, I knew it wasn’t a good deal because I wasn’t making much. I did everything I could to get into Top Blogs and get enough traffic to get some ad clicks. I frequently made it to top 20 on the front page, and even beat Dan two or three times (it makes me sad that mentioning Dan no longer gets me in the top 20!). Even still, all that traffic wasn’t getting me much ad revenue at all. A while back, I was talking about the future of getting paid for your content. I was talking about tipping content creators. If you appreciate a blog post or a podcast, or whatever, send the author/creator a little tip.
This has seriously gone above and beyond what I was talking about months ago. As some people may know, I’ve been working for Let’s Talk Bitcoin, a podcast that talks about Bitcoin. I was the second editor and proofreader, formatter, show scheduler, and poster for the website. I was the helper with this while LTB was going through a transition. They have become an entire network of podcasts and bloggers.
THIS IS THE REALLY EXCITING PART
Adam, the editor-in-chief and creator of LTB, has developed a platform where content creators can actually get paid to create content. Using the Bitcoin blockchain as a backdrop, they developed a network where the people who create content will be paid LTBCOIN once a week. In addition, if your content is popular enough to reach the front page (deemed by the community), you get a SECOND payment of LTBCOIN at the end of the month. These payments can be traded or sold, or you can use them as advertising monies on other blogs in the network.
YOU CAN EVEN EARN MONEY TO BE A CONSUMER OF CONTENT
You read that correctly. You can earn money for reading blog posts and listening to podcasts. You can earn money for tipping content creators, for commenting, and for adding to the discussion.
Why is this important to Xangans? Wouldn’t you like eProps to be of real value??? The new LTB platform is for content directed towards crypto-currencies, but the awesome part?? ADAM MADE HIS PROJECT OPEN SOURCE!!! Meaning, we can find some developers to tailor this model and add pieces and change them according to what we want a Xanga-like community to look like.
Seriously, I think this is the future of content creation. A real way for bloggers to get paid for what they do. I think many of us loved our blogging experiences on Xanga, and getting paid for commenting and communicating with others like we used to would be SO awesome.
I’ve already gotten a couple of distributions of LTBCOIN, and it feels so incredibly exciting to be a part of something like this. I think we need to take Xanga 2.0 away from the Xanga Team and make it into something like what Let’s Talk Bitcoin has going on. It is SO sad that I’m writing about this from a WordPress account, but that’s okay. We should either take Xanga over, or we create something new. Either way, this just needs to happen.
You can read more about what Adam has created HERE, and seriously contemplate what this could mean for content creation. I mean, don’t you miss hating on Dan, pissing off the Malaysians, and getting trolled by Loborn/Curtis/whatever his name is?
Love,
crazy2love
Honey & Chocolate 