RE: Exploring New Avenues for Content Recognition and Revenue
Printed magazines are dying as a vestige. In order to stay afloat, they need unique content that causes a storm of emotions. Usually it should be scandals, gossip or some kind of mystery. No one will print good life stories or diaries of unknown people. No one will buy such a magazine and it will collapse from an economic point of view.
I see another solution - an online magazine. I used to think that it was necessary to create an alternative interface with a filter that would filter out the junk. @the-gorilla created one, but it doesn't filter out uninteresting posts because no filter can do that. So I think it would be nice to create an online magazine where editors manually add the best posts from Steemit. Only programmers can suggest the implementation mechanism. Let only a few posts be added to this magazine every day, but the best and most interesting ones.
Such a magazine will have to be monetized in order to have the resources to pay for the domain and hosting, as well as the work of the editors. Also, this edition will need to be promoted to get readers, so funds will be needed for advertising.
It can also be several separate thematic online magazines.
Кстати, хорошая идея. Но этим кто-то должен заниматься. И тут мы опять упираемся в мотивацию и монетизацию...
I realize this idea is still in its early stages and doesn’t have a solid foundation at the moment. I fully acknowledge your extensive experience and agree with your points. If I may ask: do you see this as a feasible option, perhaps not in printed form but in a compiled format? Please feel free to express your thoughts unfiltered. Do you think it seems impractical due to the campaigns and associated costs?
I see great potential in the Steem blockchain and think that it is worth trying to implement any good idea, and only then analyze the results and decide whether this idea is successful.
If we talk about the practical side of implementing your idea, then I see it like this. You can create a site on a separate domain with your own unique modern attractive design. A group of editors, who will initially work exclusively voluntarily, could add posts they liked to this site (magazine). Ideally, it would be good if the post itself was physically located in the blockchain, and the post was simply displayed on the created site, as is currently done on any alternative interface. The newly created site should be optimized by someone who understands something about SEO. This will allow you to get more search traffic. Then you can solve the issue of monetization.
Возможно, найдутся добровольцы, потому что заработать на таком журнале на первых порах вряд ли удастся.