So you are thinking more along the lines of an aggregator DAC where the voting is what is taken care of on the blockchain ? Something that just points to other sites using a voting system ? People could be paid for submissions. It would be interesting to see if people were willing to pay for the tokens for such a thing.
Yes that is the general idea, but the content being more than just news- anything really. Perhaps the FollowMyVote DAC could be tied in to take care of the voting so that aspect of the DAC would be covered by that.
Devcoin derives its value without providing any financial incentive to Devcoin buyers other than simply supporting open source programmers and writers, and yet they have a $300,000+ market cap, albeit with very low volume and token value. I think I have an idea to financially incentivize it though and thus create larger value, market cap, and volume...
Create a social contract in between the DAC and content submitters. Anything they submit automatically become intellectual property of the DAC and the tokens represent cryptoequity in all content that is submitted. The blockchain can serve as a notary as far as proof of submission.
Pointing to other sites would work for content submission. That along with a hash of the the website/content to ensure the preservation of the content and that voting is actually for some specific content. The DAC then can profit from the content by publishing it, selling it, or implementing it themselves, etc
People that create good content can get paid immediately rather than putting in the effort required to profit from it. Immediate profit that is a sure thing could be incentive enough for people to submit content that may or may not make money. The DAC will act as a venture capital firm investing in many industries, ideas, programs, and various content. People whom have a good idea but not the time or money to follow it through can quickly sell it for a profit to the DAC, while maintaining equity in their idea or cashing the tokens out for a quick profit.
Songwriters can submit songs to be sold to record labels or artists. Art can be submitted to be sold or displayed in galleries. Photographs and Books can be printed or published online and then sold. Inventions could be patented. Articles and content that can gain website traffic will get revenue from website ads or subscription fees. Communities could be formed upon the submittal of quality forum posts with substance and thus profit from advertising revenue. The intellectual property of the DAC could be profited on in many ways depending on what type of content it is. The idea is literally limitless and only restricted by our imaginations as to what kind of content that can be submitted and profited off of by equity owners.
I'm not sure what you mean by more than images and text.... I like the idea of news on the blockchain, but something that could attach a more fiercely independent type view. Like wikileaks sort of stuff in addition to real news. Not sure. Most news isn't particularly censored as it is with the internet. With the right (or wrong) stuff your blockchain then becomes more like a torrent for censored content.
I am thinking bigger than simply a news DAC, but that could/should be a part of it. Sorry I am derailing the thread.