Announced the results of a whole year of donations from the reader to the journalist via the Internet

The deputy editor-in-chief of the Russky Reporter magazine — a noticeably popular journalist Sokolov-Mitrich — set up an experiment called “ Thanks Journalism ”: for a whole year he pointed out a hyperlink for each of his articles (and if not for everyone, then for the overwhelming majority) to the page (more precisely, on the blog entry ) with payment details (Yandex.Money, Webmoney, PayPal and Moneybookers) for grateful readers who want to directly thank the author with money.

And today Sokolov-Mitrich announced the results : from March 15, 2011 to March 15, 2012 the amount of the fee paid to a journalist by his readers amounted to 42,723 rubles 33 kopecks.

As well as a number of the results of the habrakhabrovsky collapse , the outcome of the Sokolov-Mitrich experiment brings me to this conclusion: the modern network community still does not give the author (even quite significant and well-known!) The opportunity to live, relying only on the results of the folding (that is, living with public donations).
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Sokolov-Mitrich, however, does not lose confidence that there is a future for crowd-based technologies. (He found this confidence on March 15, 2011, after reading Grigory Tarasevich’s publication “ Online Utopia ” in Russian Reporter. The publication is really interesting, I recommend to read it.)

_{For illustration, we used a photograph of a pig piggy, which is distributed on a Wikimedia Commons under a GFDL license.}