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Hal Crawford
Personal blog · halcrawford.substack.comeconomicsbusinesswriting
Hal Crawford writes Crawford Media, a personal blog at halcrawford.substack.com about economics, business and writing. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Hal Crawford's Substack post on micropayments for news, which argues about pay-per-article pricing and whether it can support news businesses. The linked post is cited in a thread on archive.is pricing.
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News media, technology and humans.
What Hacker News says?
Yeah $5 is way too high. Unfortunately we have proof that 5c is too low, though. Blendle tried to make it work at (IIRC) something like 25c/article and apparently that wasn't enough (they still exist, but apparently their searching for a profitable business model). https://halcrawford.substack.com/p/micropayments-the-news-id...
Comment linking /p/micropayments-the-news-idea-that
on “What Happened to Archive.is?”Submitted The Economist's global rip off as a story · 55 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Economist's digital pricing regime defies economics as a story · 1 points
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