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  "title": "Checking out indieKarma",
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  "html": "<p>After reading <a href=\"http://www.kottke.org/06/05/indiekarma-micropayments\">Kottke's post</a> about <a href=\"http://www.indiekarma.com/\">indieKarma</a>, I've signed up and dropped the code into my blog template in a crass and bald-faced move to monetize my blog.  We'll see what happens - and let me know if the thing becomes too annoying or whatnot.  It seems like an interesting concept.</p>\n <p>Just thinking further about this thing - it would be neat if they could eventually include some further features to exploit the cross-blog placement of that JS include.  Maybe some metrics and reporting in general, maybe some more blog-shiny whizbangs, maybe a small indicator of how many other indieKarma-capable visitors hit the site in the last 5 minutes.</p>\n\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\"><h3>Archived Comments</h3>\n<ul class=\"comments\">\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221084913\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.submitresponse.co.uk/mt/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=3a6aa11eff36e9d968119a6bb4cea05e&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.submitresponse.co.uk/mt/\">Jack Mottram</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221084913\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-05-09T09:46:41\">2006-05-09T09:46:41</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>I like it.</p>\n<p>Except that, from the reader's end of things, the fact that I'll automatically drop 1¢ on a participating weblog the moment I visit for the first time, regardless of what I think of it, is a bit troubling. I'd be pretty miffed if I unknowingly followed a link to, say, a far-right racist weblog and therefore provided them with financial support, however tiny the amount.</p>\n<p>Just my two cents. Or one cent, in this case.</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221084914\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/\"><img src=\"http://disqus.com/api/users/avatars/plaidfluff.jpg\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/\">fluffy</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221084914\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-05-10T04:01:57\">2006-05-10T04:01:57</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>I was going to sign up for it but the huge terms of service with lots of scary all-caps warnings turned me off.  They need to make it no-nonsense.  Why do license agreements need to automatically be 30 pages, incomprehensible, and hostile?</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221084915\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://blog.familopia.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=65c1e2c00ec5b0fc0fc061d20980c218&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://blog.familopia.com\">Matt</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221084915\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-06-05T07:59:16\">2006-06-05T07:59:16</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>Actually fits with how I think the web should work, or at least a new business model based on making pennies, but many many pennies. It's like a fountain for blogs. Anyways, I don't know if I'd put money in after my initial free buck. But maybe you'll make a buck off of me ;)</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n</div>\n\n\n",
  "body": " <p>After reading <a href=\"http://www.kottke.org/06/05/indiekarma-micropayments\">Kottke's post</a> about <a href=\"http://www.indiekarma.com/\">indieKarma</a>, I've signed up and dropped the code into my blog template in a crass and bald-faced move to monetize my blog.  We'll see what happens - and let me know if the thing becomes too annoying or whatnot.  It seems like an interesting concept.</p>\r\n <p>Just thinking further about this thing - it would be neat if they could eventually include some further features to exploit the cross-blog placement of that JS include.  Maybe some metrics and reporting in general, maybe some more blog-shiny whizbangs, maybe a small indicator of how many other indieKarma-capable visitors hit the site in the last 5 minutes.</p>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\">\r\n            <h3>Archived Comments</h3>\r\n            \r\n        <ul class=\"comments\">\r\n            \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221084913\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.submitresponse.co.uk/mt/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=3a6aa11eff36e9d968119a6bb4cea05e&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.submitresponse.co.uk/mt/\">Jack Mottram</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221084913\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-05-09T09:46:41\">2006-05-09T09:46:41</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>I like it.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Except that, from the reader's end of things, the fact that I'll automatically drop 1¢ on a participating weblog the moment I visit for the first time, regardless of what I think of it, is a bit troubling. I'd be pretty miffed if I unknowingly followed a link to, say, a far-right racist weblog and therefore provided them with financial support, however tiny the amount.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Just my two cents. Or one cent, in this case.</p></div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221084914\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/\"><img src=\"http://disqus.com/api/users/avatars/plaidfluff.jpg\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/\">fluffy</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221084914\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-05-10T04:01:57\">2006-05-10T04:01:57</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>I was going to sign up for it but the huge terms of service with lots of scary all-caps warnings turned me off.  They need to make it no-nonsense.  Why do license agreements need to automatically be 30 pages, incomprehensible, and hostile?</p></div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221084915\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://blog.familopia.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=65c1e2c00ec5b0fc0fc061d20980c218&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://blog.familopia.com\">Matt</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221084915\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-06-05T07:59:16\">2006-06-05T07:59:16</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>Actually fits with how I think the web should work, or at least a new business model based on making pennies, but many many pennies. It's like a fountain for blogs. Anyways, I don't know if I'd put money in after my initial free buck. But maybe you'll make a buck off of me ;)</p></div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        </ul>\r\n    \r\n        </div>\r\n    ",
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