"Having Aspen and Knight endorse personal sovereignty as a necessity for solving the crises of democracy and trust also means they endorse what we’ve been pushing forward here for more than a dozen years," says Doc Searls, in this post arguing for a "a citizen-sovereign way to pay for news."
"There are much better ways of getting the supply and demand sides of creative markets together. EmanciPay is one of them, and deserves another airing. Perhaps now that Knight and Aspen are cheering the citizen-sovereign bandwagon, it’s worth open-sourcing our original EmanciPay proposal."