As far as I am aware, there is no US-based Blendle yet? (An article aggregator where you pay per article). If so, they have a large market ahead of them!
As far as we know, there's no other company in the world that offers this 'pay-per-article-service'.
Blendle has been tremendously succesful in the Netherlands, proving to us that people are still interested in high quality journalism. It's just that until Blendle came along, the way journalism is offered to readers was outdated to the point of it being ridiculous. We're happy to provide an easy alternative!
Well, when you get right down to it, all internet startups essentially focused on 'reading words that were typed into such a box by someone else previously.' [0] :)
The reinforced bubble you speak of is not what we're seeing in the articles being bought, but it is something that has our attention. We love great investigative reporting and journalism. Keeping that alive and nurturing that is our raison d'être.
So if that happens and if we can, we're going to prevent that bubble.
[0] https://plus.google.com/117114202722218150209/posts/KhMRNmgG...
