{"id":5479,"date":"2016-02-18T16:21:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T16:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5479"},"modified":"2016-02-12T16:21:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T16:21:38","slug":"linked-an-ez-pass-for-local-news-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/02\/18\/linked-an-ez-pass-for-local-news-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;An EZ-PASS for local news sites?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scripting.com\/liveblog\/users\/davewiner\/2016\/02\/12\/1004.html\">via Scripting News<\/a>: on the subject of paying per article read with an EZ-Pass like system<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So why don\u2019t they band together and do an E-Z PASS type thing. For $5 a month instead of 5 articles on each site, I get 100. The out-of-towner rate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pretty good idea. I\u2019d join this as long as privacy was maintained. Envisioning it this way and let\u2019s call the service &#8220;EZ-Read\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I join EZ-Read and hand over my credit card information and pre-pay $25..let\u2019s say the first month is free<\/li>\n<li>EZ-Read requires I install a Safari Extension which I login into my account via the extension and<\/li>\n<li>The Extension keeps an eye out for cases where I visit websites that are in the EZ-Read program<\/li>\n<li>Every time I visit a partner site like Sun-Times, The Herald, SFGate, NYTimes or even blogs like Daring Fireball to read an article over 500 words, a credit is used. Let\u2019s say it\u2019s 100 credits for $20<\/li>\n<li>Maybe the first 25 words are free and I have to click \u201cuse credit\u201d to get the full story so it keeps me from using credits on articles I accidentally click<\/li>\n<li>In exchange for my patronage, I don\u2019t get tracked by advertisers and I get an ad-free experience.<\/li>\n<li>EZ-Read extension puts an overlay over articles if I\u2019ve reached the end of my credits and I can simply go to the website to buy more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019d join this service. Looks like Dave Winer would as well.<\/p>\n<p>PS: If EZ-Read also aggregated all of the RSS feeds into one I can subscribe to, even better. It generates them more money because I\u2019m clicking through to articles that take credits but it allows me to use RSS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Scripting News: on the subject of paying per article read with an EZ-Pass like system So why&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T01:59:13Z","apple_news_api_id":"9c9e702e-c00a-41ac-a980-36f9a92f8426","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T01:59:13Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AnJ5wLsAKQaypgDb5qS-EJg","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1qn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6732,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/02\/27\/my-house-0221-granite-countertops-my-weather-station-and-flooring\/","url_meta":{"origin":5479,"position":0},"title":"My House: 02\/21, Granite Countertops, My Weather Station and Flooring","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"February 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0QdTzvmtkzs \u2014\u2014- I bought an\u00a0Ambient Weather WS-1200-IP Observer station that works with Weather Underground. 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