Gather.com -- Get Paid to Contribute
How weird! Earlier today I came across a site called Gather.com and added it to my list of sites to blog about, and now I just found a post at SmartMobs talking about it as well.
In a nutshell, Gather.com is a sort of group blog/social network sort of thing where you can write articles about things you care about, and participate in a sort of group conversation through comments. Sounds like fun. And here's the kicker -- they share their advertising revenue with contributors. According to their About Us page, they pay regular contributors of high-quality content in cash, and everybody else gets points, which will be redeemable for merchandize and/or gift certificates soon.
Content contributions can be in the form of text (articles,essays,short stories, etc.), audio (songs, podcasts, etc.), images or video. I read a few articles and most of them were pretty good, so I've signed up to see how the social networking/rewards points part of it works.
In a nutshell, Gather.com is a sort of group blog/social network sort of thing where you can write articles about things you care about, and participate in a sort of group conversation through comments. Sounds like fun. And here's the kicker -- they share their advertising revenue with contributors. According to their About Us page, they pay regular contributors of high-quality content in cash, and everybody else gets points, which will be redeemable for merchandize and/or gift certificates soon.
Content contributions can be in the form of text (articles,essays,short stories, etc.), audio (songs, podcasts, etc.), images or video. I read a few articles and most of them were pretty good, so I've signed up to see how the social networking/rewards points part of it works.
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