{"id":4588,"date":"2012-04-02T16:38:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T21:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4588"},"modified":"2012-06-13T13:26:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T18:26:03","slug":"readability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/readability\/","title":{"rendered":"Readability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2012\/04\/02\/davidsonability\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2012\/04\/02\/davidsonability\"><p>Readability should make it clear that it&#8217;s really <em>up to<\/em> 70 percent of subscriber contributions that are paid to publishers, and that in reality it&#8217;s far less because most websites aren&#8217;t in their program. Or, they should pay 70 percent and split it only among those publishers who <em>are<\/em> registered. They way they&#8217;re doing it and phrasing it now is misleading.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2012-06-13): Most of the intended recipients <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.readability.com\/2012\/06\/announcement\/\">never recieved<\/a> any money:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.readability.com\/2012\/06\/announcement\/\"><p>And the great majority of those publishers never registered. Out of the millions&mdash;yes, millions&mdash;of domains that flowed through Readability, just over 2,000 registered to claim their money. As a result, most of the money we collected&mdash;over 90%&mdash;has gone unclaimed. As of today there&rsquo;s nearly $150,000 in earmarked money sitting in a separate, untouched bank account.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems to me that they should refund it to the donors or divide it amongst the publishers who did register. Instead, they&rsquo;re giving the bulk of it to two non-profit organizations that they selected.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: Readability should make it clear that it&#8217;s really up to 70 percent of subscriber contributions that are paid to publishers, and that in reality it&#8217;s far less because most websites aren&#8217;t in their program. Or, they should pay 70 percent and split it only among those publishers who are registered. They way they&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4588"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5080,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions\/5080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}