pando.com<\/a> wrote Tuesday. \u201cIf the Sun Times\u2019 BitWall experiment bears fruit, expect to see it duplicated elsewhere. Both the publishing and the bitcoin ecosystems would be better off for it.\u201d<\/p>\nSun-Times parent company Wrapports LLC is working with BitWall, a San Francisco-based content monetization company, on the test, which may turn out to be more difficult to explain to readers than its tech-savvy champions realize.<\/p>\n
Typical of the jargon that accompanied announcement of the trial was this statement from Josh Metnick, chief technology officer of Wrapports: \u201cUsing this frictionless payment technology in concert with BitWall's software allows us an innovative feasible micro-transaction and time-based access revenue models.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jim Kirk, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Sun-Times, was clearer in explaining that the one-day paywall won\u2019t stop readers from accessing the website for free. \u201cIt\u2019s not a hard wall,\u201d he said. \u201cWe just want to see whether something like this is viable going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
The last effort by the Sun-Times to maintain a metered paywall in 2011 failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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