Why social, media are converging | Blendle: people pay for “why”, not “how” | Vox opens up Chorus

May 5, 2015: 3 to read: A trio of stories, videos, and data viz compiled once a week by the Future of News initiative at the MIT Media Lab

1. Why social and media platforms are converging: engagement, mobile & money.
2. One year later with Blendle: a radical experiment with micropayments: A big takeaway — people are willing to pay for “why” but not “how”.
3. Vox opens up Chorus, its content and analytics platform, to advertisers

— Matt Carroll <@MattatMIT>

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Matt Carroll runs the Future of News initiative at the MIT Media Lab.