{"id":4,"date":"2005-03-15T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-15T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=4"},"modified":"2005-03-15T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-15T14:39:00","slug":"blair-witch-co-creator-uses-bitpass-micropayments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Blair Witch Co-creator uses Bitpass Micropayments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/TECH\/internet\/03\/14\/myrick.reut\/index.html\">article<\/a> on CNN today about one of the co-creators of the Blair Witch project using Bitpass micropayments (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitpass.com\">www.bitpass.com<\/a>) to sell his latest movie work. This could be the highest exposure micropayments have got in the mass media, I suspect. Micropayments, if you don&#8217;t already know, give browsers the ability to buy content on the web for as little as a penny&#8230; making it so content providers (like, say, cartoonists) can sell their content directly to the reader for a modest sum completely bypassing all middlemen. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottmccloud.com\/\">Scott McCloud<\/a> is a big proponent of them (and was one of the first cartoonists to use it)&#8230; if you&#8217;re interested you can read a lot more about micropayments in his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottmccloud.com\/store\/store.html\">Reinventing Comics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/TECH\/internet\/03\/14\/myrick.reut\/index.html\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an article on CNN today about one of the co-creators of the Blair Witch project using Bitpass micropayments (www.bitpass.com) to sell his latest movie work. This could be the highest exposure micropayments have got in the mass media, I suspect. Micropayments, if you don&#8217;t already know, give browsers the ability to buy content on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=4\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blair Witch Co-creator uses Bitpass Micropayments<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd8gD-4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}