Awesome Stuff: Want To Make Sure The Internet Stays Open And Free For Innovation?

from the tooting-our-own-horn-a-bit dept

Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community. Techdirt is one of the few remaining truly independent media outlets. We do not have a giant corporation behind us, and we rely heavily on our community to support us, in an age when advertisers are increasingly uninterested in sponsoring small, independent sites — especially a site like ours that is unwilling to pull punches in its reporting and analysis. While other websites have resorted to paywalls, registration requirements, and increasingly annoying/intrusive advertising, we have always kept Techdirt open and available to anyone. But in order to continue doing so, we need your support. We offer a variety of ways for our readers to support us, from direct donations to special subscriptions and cool merchandise — and every little bit helps. Thank you.

–The Techdirt Team

Each week, we post an "awesome stuff" post that looks at a few interesting (and sometimes not so interesting) crowdfunding projects. This week, however, we're doing our own. On Monday, we launched crowdfunding campaign to support our coverage of net neutrality . The idea is to let us put more resources towards really digging into every aspect of this battle. We're a very small team trying to cover a variety of subjects, and we work quite hard at it, but if we can dedicate greater efforts towards this important debate, we're hoping to really dig deep and look at what's really happening -- beyond just the basic headlines of what's out there.We were able to do that with the SOPA/PIPA fight, but as I mentioned in our last post, doing so meant that we lost big on the advertising side. While that didn't stop us, we'd rather not have to worry about that, but rather just focus on just getting you the best reporting we can. While we've written hundreds of stories on net neutrality, here are a few memorable ones to highlight the kinds of things we want to be able to keep bringing you:As you can see, we really try to dig deeper, past the straight up headlines to see what else is going on. We can do a lot more of that, but we need to reach our funding goal. We're off to an amazing start so far, with it getting well over a third of the way funded in less than a week. But there's still a, and it needs your help. Please, if you can, look at supporting this project, and sharing it with your friends.Once again, if you donate now, there arethat we get from a group of donors, meaning that every dollar you give creates twice as much impact. Please consider supporting this effort. We won't let you down.

Filed Under: awesome stuff, crowdfunding, innovation, net neutrality