September 10, 2023 — Traditionally, writers and bloggers relied on advertisement to make generate income, which hurt the reading experience. In recent years, subscription model become popular. However, subscription model is not suitable for writers with infrequent outputs, and forces them to lock their posts behind a paywall and hurts SEO.

With the advancement on web3, NFT allows writers to sell “autographed copies” of their writings. Not only readers are now able to own a copy of the writing and writers receive income, it also helps the writings to stay openly accessible at all time.

In this talk, I shall share my experience on writing full time and make a living with Writing NFT, all on WordPress.

June 16, 2020 — 探討現有的網上內容流通模式和網頁的收入模式。內容生產者/創作者可以如何持續改善生態。 30 年來網上內容免費是大潮流，但收費生態持續在演變。上過網的人，幾乎都聽過遇過「404 Not Found」，卻幾乎沒有人知道「402 Payment Required」的存在。這些 401、403、404 等代碼其實是 HTTP 狀態碼，是萬維網 world-wide web 基礎設計的一部分，打從互聯網初期已經存在，可想而知，部分網頁需要收費，才符合當時的「常識」。但當其時，窄頻網絡雖然已搭通，付費方式卻還沒配合發展，因此傳統媒體都不會把正以實體方式出售的內容上網。不久，有人想到仿效免費電視，把自家內容 — 更多是偷來的內容 — 免費提供，透過廣告賺錢，這模式很快成為主流，免費獲取內容的期望迅速形成，自己不把內容免費上網，用戶就會流向別的地方，逼使大家紛紛效法。很快，內容免費成為了壓倒性的潮流並延續到現在；最大的互聯網公司 Google、Facebook 等都是這一浪潮的受益者，並得到大部分好處，反而大量內容生產者只能艱苦經營。

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