This was the original post that spawned the current version, provided for context
Hey everybody, I'm a
writer who has been covering bitcoin recently.
Writing on the internet is one of those 99%/1% things, the vast majority of writers do not get paid when their content is posted somewhere prominent. It is the exposure that is valuable, as it allows you to gain name recognition which you can then leverage to work your way up the food chain.
But mostly it means lots of people are writing as a passion rather than profession - Bitcoin can put all that on its head by turning every original article into something which generates "royalties" perpetually. At the beginning of each article would be a embeddable HTML widget which displayed the bitcoin address for that article, along with the total donated thus far along with the total number of donors.
In addition to providing tangible feedback to the journalist on which articles are more popular, it gives a writer with a back catalog of 300 articles some fair income potential.
Obviously not every story will generate oodles of donations, but the internet doesn't forget good content and things have a way of popping up over and over again. Instead of writing for a publisher, you'd only have to write for 100 backers choosing to donate .01BTC each.
You can get a better idea what I'm taking about with this mockup I made of the widget Ideally you'd just put in the public address for that article and it would pull and display the required data.
MOCKUP OF WIDGET
http://imgur.com/2y5d5KDAre there any developers interested in taking this on? I'm happy to talk details, this could be a major win for all involved parties.