if you haven't heard yet, it's a micro-payment system for donations to blogs etc. Some German political and technical blogs have seen monthly payouts of ~1000 EUR. http://flattr.com - Michael Kuhn

(I'm not affiliated with them, and haven't added Flattr to my blog yet, but I have donated to a few sites I like) EDIT: just added a button to my blog. - Michael Kuhn

I already have an account and would be happy to add the button to my blog. However, to do so, I have to have an active Flattr account, which means spending at least EUR 2 per month on Flattr, which I would be more than happy to do, if I was able to donate that money to the people who run the blogs that I like. But I cannot because none of them have a Flattr button on their blog (which may well be for the very same reason that I don't have it on my blog). - Lars Juhl Jensen

The only way I see around that problem is an coordinated effort, namely that several bloggers in the field agree to all put Flattr buttons on their blogs at the same time to get it started. - Lars Juhl Jensen

I just activated it ... I like the concept and will give it a go. If I do not like it I will stop again https://flattr.com/thing... ... Besides there are more than just blogs indexed, also software and other more general sites. - joergkurtwegner

I'd be happy to give it a go. Might go some way towards covering hosting costs... - Cameron Neylon

@Cameron: I mailed you an invite code. - Michael Kuhn

I'm interested in trying it too. I'd love to send some appreciation to great posts and software. Would also love to cover some hosting costs... - Catherine Anderson

I just found out that "science 3.0" is using is already https://flattr.com/thing... - joergkurtwegner

And if you have not seen it already, here some more information about micropayments in science -- Micropayments in science - Do you love the long-tail, you better should http://bit.ly/aTPC1r #science #business #market #longtail - joergkurtwegner

I have three invites, too, just let me know if you are interested. - joergkurtwegner

Can I have an invite too? BTW, how is Flattr income classified from tax laws point of view? As a donation? - Pawel Szczesny

@pawel - can you send your eMail to me@joergkurtwegner.eu ? Please do not use FriendFeed's direct messages they are shown in RSS feeds and are *not* private. - joergkurtwegner

Joerg, direct msgs not private? How cool, FF turning into FB... Email sent. Thank you. - Pawel Szczesny

@Pawel - Invite code is on the way ... and no FF is not private ... I had a while ago a discussion with Daniel Mietchen and we exchanged mobile numbers ... which later showed up on my public RSS integration ... this is not nice ... and luckily Daniel has seen it, so I deleted the threads and cleaned my feed integration ... - joergkurtwegner

I'd like an invite if there are any left, thanks! devjen at berkeley dot edu - Devon Jensen

I have now also activated my Flattr account and added buttons. It will be interesting to see if we can make it take off within the community :-) - Lars Juhl Jensen

@Devon, I just sent you an invite - Lars Juhl Jensen

Ups @Devon, just send you my last invite, too. If you do not need it anymore, let me know. - joergkurtwegner

Cheers Michael, have some invites as well now - I'm assuming three... - Cameron Neylon

I'm trying to convince Bora to add a Flattr button to "A Blog Around The Clock" :-) - Lars Juhl Jensen

@Lars +1 Bora will definitely get one of my votes - joergkurtwegner

Hmm, I had the Flattr buttons so far only my coding blog not my science related blog. Feels somehow strange to put it there. - Konrad Förstner

I can try it out to if there is still any invites left. Maybe a few blog posts would spread it around faster. - Pedro Beltrao

@Pedro: I sent you an invite code - Michael Kuhn

@Joerg: Perhaps the DM showed up in your *private* RSS feed, but not in the public one? - Michael Kuhn

@Michael, I am not sure about this, since I simply used http://friendfeed.com/myusern... as RSS feed and the web-server of my site does not host any login information, so it does not know what 'private' and 'public' is, but should just use the 'public' RSS I would assume (which was not the case). - joergkurtwegner

Ok - signed up and starting to get this working. Playing with the Wordpress plugin at the moment. - Cameron Neylon

Dumped my thoughts about Flattr and science: http://bit.ly/balFxF Funnily this got flattred immediately. - Konrad Förstner

Any left? - Egon Willighagen

@Egon - Mark has some left http://www.science3point0.com/members... - joergkurtwegner

Egon, I can send you one if you haven't got one already...(which if the login is down seems likely) - Cameron Neylon

seems like invite codes are not necessary anymore, anyone can register now - Michael Kuhn

Who is using this on a post-by-post basis? That is, Cameron's blog uses it at the blog level, not at the individual blog post leve, right? - Egon Willighagen

Yeh, I couldn't quite work out a good way of doing it at post level. Or rather dropping it in at the bottom seemed counterproductive. I haven't yet seen a good way of putting it into an RSS feed. I used the Wordpress RSS feed plugin but it just inserts a link to the Flattr site not to a page corresponding to either me or the post... - Cameron Neylon

Skimming off 10% seems a bit exorbitant. - Noel O'Boyle

@Noel... indeed... that's some interest they are asking... is that amount capped? that is, that the skim at most 10 SEK if your monthly contribution increases? Otherwise, I really like the idea... - Egon Willighagen

According to the internets, they'll try and bring it down over time. Am I right in saying that you need a Paypal account to make this happen? If so, I can't do it. - Noel O'Boyle

Nope doesn't need paypal. I did a direct credit card payment - Cameron Neylon from Android

Ok - out of excuses. On the off chance that this will change the world into a gift economy... - Noel O'Boyle

I think this will my next attempt after a Google Adsense fail... my blog is too boring for the large ad-clicking public... - Egon Willighagen