The Interledger Community 🌱: Gretchen Heckmann

Correcting Error 402 — ILF Grant Final Report

Gretchen Heckmann — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 00:36:42 +0000

Brief Project Description

A content series exploring the concept of web monetization, and how very different the internet might look if web monetization was widely deployed. This will be posted on Techdirt (and freely shareable, repostable anywhere), starting with a look at how there was, from early on, an intent for web monetization to be a part of the world wide web, as is clear from the creation of HTTP response status code 402: “Payment required.” Progress report #1

Project Update

Project is complete with the series to debut in September 2023. You can find all articles here

Project Impact & Target Audience(s)

We are inspiring more people to make use of web monetization and to make it more common helps drive wider adoption to bring about the original promises of web monetization. Web monetization really only works if it is widely adopted, and in order to get it more widely adopted, people need to understand the story behind it and the opportunities it creates. Part of the content series will focus on how web monetization will help enable more traditionally marginalized groups and individuals to route around traditional hurdles and blockades in order to do more.

Progress on Objectives, Key Activities

Communications and Marketing

We will be marketing the series on our social media handles and on our blog techdirt.com.

What’s Next?

The series is due for publication in September. From there we hope the project will encourage more people to make use of the web monetization API and the Interledger Protocol.

Correcting Error 402 — Grant Report #1

Gretchen Heckmann — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 22:05:54 +0000

Project Update

Correcting Error 402 is a content series exploring the concept of web monetization, and how very different the internet might look if web monetization was widely deployed. This will be posted on Techdirt (and freely shareable, repostable anywhere), starting with a look at how there was, from early on, an intent for web monetization to be a part of the world wide web, as is clear from the creation of HTTP response status code 402: “Payment required.” We had a rough start at the beginning of the year as we migrated our site over to WordPress and dealt with broken links, bugs, broken spam filters, etc. With that behind us, our researcher was able to dive in and explore the history of web monetization, what has failed in the past, what has potential today, and where there are real opportunities to create a better internet through web monetization.

Progress on objectives

Our objectives for producing blog posts on the Techdirt site are coming along well. Our writers are busy getting the posts finished and to our editor. Our design person is working on branding and messaging to go along with the blog posts.

Key activities

We have finished the research and interviews and continue to write up the posts.

Communications and marketing

We're working with our design person to come up with some branding and have told a few people about the project but have more work to do here.

What’s next?

We'll finish writing and editing the posts and get them ready for publication.