racoma.com.phJ. Angelo Racoma on technology, economics, writing, problogging, and getting things done

The J Spot is now a subscriber-supported blog (as contribution / donation-ware).  Since i.PH
enabled pay4access this second semester of 2005, I thought about
creative ways of cashing in through this feature.  It is, after all,
a cool idea to earn online.  But I decided against putting up my
content on a purely subscription basis because I want my writings
to be
freely accessible to everyone.  And while Google’s AdSense looks
promising, I’m not really into having adverts on my site.  So to keep things
going well, I decided to accept subscriptions via a contribution-type scheme.

If you like this site, please do contribute. 
I’ve set the minimum
to US$ 2.00 for PayPal and the approximately equiavalent PhP 110.00 for
Globe G-Cash.  Please do feel free to contribute more by subscribing as many times
as you deem necessary–the subscription cookie expires after 24
hours.  I’d recommend a modest amount of US$ 10 as an annual
subscription.  Hey, ain’t that cheap?  Kottke recommended 30 bucks/year for his site!

Your contributions will go a long way (i.e. it will help me finally put
out that review of the latest Apple powerbook
once I get enough dough to
buy one, heheh … just kidding of course ).  You can expect a
marked improvement in my writings, especially with regard to tech
matters.  Writing, after all, takes up quite some
resources, more so if it’s about technology (I pay for electricity,
equipment, bandwidth, prepaid mobile phone credits, transportation,
food, coffee, beer,
etc.).  And this will definitely help in my  advocacy for
alternative content-distribution, and my coming up with better,
more media-rich content, such as a podcast and prospectively a video-cast.

And to show my gratitude, I will put up on my sidebar a list of
people who have
contributed, with the relevant links, too.  It does pay to
be a patron.  Will you be able to influence my content?  Hmm
… I prefer to be independent, and hence I can not promise
anything.  But I’m open to ideas, and if it’s good stuff, then I’d
do it for free anyway .

Remember, content on the J Spot (http://jangelo.i.ph) will still be free and accessible to anyone. 
The pay4access site is intended as a gateway for accepting
contributions.  So it’s still free as in free-speech, free
open-source software, and free-beer.

Please do get in touch with me if you’re having problems with G-Cash or
PayPal (i.PH may soon support Smart Money and other payment gateways),
or if you’d like to contribute in any other way (in cash or in
kind).  Right now, the
G-Cash gateway is in the final testing stages, and may not be fully
operational–you may directly send me G-Cash to 09172083599 (instructions here).  Share-a-Load is also fine.

Click here to contribute using Pay4Access!

A quick link to this information: support.jangelo.i.ph

Thank you and best regards.

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