Was the idea not just to get writers working for nothing but actually to sell them articles to fill their blogs with?

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Typically, capturing that audience been a very hard sell to advertisers, because most advertisers are not organized that way. (Micropayments for news articles) are a way to generate revenue from an international audience.

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Companies not only sell us ways to beautify and improve life, they also offer the means empowering us to acquire such articles: employment.

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