Flattr! Be Part of the New Grassroots Information Economy!

Posted by stefan on 18 August 2010

… and support sagesex.com in a new and easy way! The nerds among you know already: The Swedish heroes from the Piratebay have had another stroke of genius: Flattr! It’s like Digg with money: Now you can’t just tell everybody what you think is cool on the Web, but also reward and support (flattr!) your favorite projects in a way that is brilliantly simple, secure, and adapted to your personal finance and generosity budgets: fantastic Open Source software, free texts, music, images, video and, of course,  masterful mixed media contributions like sagesex!

It’s very simple: Go to Flattr, register, pre-pay an arbitrary amount via Paypal or credit card, and adjust how much of this money you want to give for the good in the world every month. From then on and everywhere in the Web, you can simply press one of these cute little buttons that you can now see below all our posts, and your monthly contribution will be fairly distributed among all the projects that you have flattrd in this month. Plus, from this moment on you also have the opportunity to have your own contributions to the world’s information culture rewarded by the world. And, as with Digg, you can always see how popular something is by how much it gets flattrd.

You can see, I find this idea beyond brilliant and of course I have begun to flattr my favourites myself (by the way, it would be great to have a wordpress plugin that shows you my favorite things). Flattr is a concrete and well-made utopia that might even make redundant the often talked-about “culture flat rate”. There are still some concessions to grey reality, like the 10% that Flattr keeps (though they are supposed to have promised decreasing this percentage in the future – plus, I like to support the pirates in their lawsuits), the idiotic fees that Paypal/Moneybookers take, or the minimum contribution of 2€/month (which is OK for me, but it could keep a few Indians from taking part in this new world economy). Still I’m hoping and believing that Flattr will be outrageously successful, that it will blur even more the boundaries between producers and consumers, and that it helps bringing free culture to free people without making the producers starve. In this spirit we naturally rejoice deeply if you flattr us.

Popularity: 8% [?]

18Aug

Old People present: Modern Avantgarde Music from Modern China

Posted by admin on 22 July 2010

Chinese grandpa’s avantgarde music from sagesex on Vimeo.

Popularity: 7% [?]

22Jul

Choose your favorite Khmer Pop Song!

Posted by julian on 24 April 2010

By now it should be common knowledge that Cambodians are the most beautiful people on earth with the best taste in websites. Yet we cannot leave this wonderful country without shedding a light on what’s maybe the most tasteful pillar of its culture: Khmer pop! In hours and hours of investigation we have narrowed down the gigantic choice to four great Cambodian hymns. We leave the final choice of the Sagesex Khmer Pop King 2010 to you and wish you a great time with these pearls of entertainment. Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 20% [?]

24Apr

The Bangkok Skytrain Change Event

Posted by admin on 27 March 2010

Sagesex presents: The Bangkok Skytrain Change Event. Goodbye Thailand. Featuring Wind of Change – Thailand’s inofficial national anthem. This song is playing everywhere across the country, and it fits this place better than any other country in the world. Attention: This art is good.

Popularity: 7% [?]

27Mar