{"id":131,"date":"2004-06-11T15:04:03","date_gmt":"2004-06-11T15:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/131"},"modified":"2004-06-11T15:04:03","modified_gmt":"2004-06-11T15:04:03","slug":"something-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/131","title":{"rendered":"Something Positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three weeks ago R.K. Milholland got fed up with people criticizing the spelling in his online comic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethingpositive.net\/\">Something Positive<\/a> so he posted a dare: donate his current day-job salary ($22,000) to his pay-pal account and he&#8217;ll quit and work full-time on the comic. The donations flooded in, and yesterday he gave his 2-weeks notice.<\/p>\n<p>Just one more example of how &#8220;selling&#8221; content isn&#8217;t the only economic model out there, or necessarily even the best. 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