themestream.com

Advantages: excellent quality articles, well laid out site, good pay rates
Disadvantages: underfunded and the greedy few milked the coffers dry

The sudden closure of popular US Writing site Themestream on Friday (the 13th – how apt is that?) should come as a wake up call to us all. No two ways about it – GREED killed Themestream, pure Greed! For those of you that know nothing about Themestream let me tell you the story. It opened up around a year ago as ‘www.oscarnet.com’. A site which would enable the writer and non-writer alike to publish on-line a variety of ...
...accepted. Members were encouraged to submit the best quality – Themestream was going to be THE Writing site, with professionals, semi – pros and good quality amateur writers all submitting to the site. ‘Oscarnet’ became Themestream and they were going to pay 10 cents per read of your article – no fee for writing and referral scheme, BUT allowing as many non-member reads as you like – while they were still in ‘beta’. ... Read review

Advantages: Pays quarterly anywhere in the world for minimum of $25 earnings
Disadvantages: The 150 word minimum is practically impossible for poets to comply with

There are two major reasons I joined up with Themestream: Money Ciao isn't set up to send me the money I earn to where I live (in Israel). This was probably the first reason I became interested in Themestream. Since I joined, I have received two checks from them, and I will soon receive a third one. Themestream pays quarterly for any earnings in that quarter that are are $25 or more. In addition to this, when I joined Themestream they were giving ...
...viewer was a member or not. Today, my newer articles only get $0.02, but at least when I send a friend to see my articles, they don't have to be a member of Themestream for me to earn my two cents. This is probably one of the reasons why I have been able to earn more on Themestream than I will ever be able to earn on Ciao. Content From the very start, Ciao made it very clear that the were only interested in seeing articles of a journalistic nature. ... Read review

Advantages: Very rich content
Disadvantages: Not a product oriented site

...receive is really secondary to the thoughts that this site can and will provoke. If you are looking for advice on what to buy then stay with CIAO.com or Epinions.com, it you are looking for articles that will make you think, laugh or cry then go to Themestream.com ... Read review

Advantages: People are passionate about what they contribute
Disadvantages: quite hard to understand the site

If your thinking of using Themestream.com as another place to air your opinions, then think again. They are not after opinions, they are after articles, and writers can get paid for people viewing their articles. They do not get paid for actually publishing their articles to the website either, just 2 cents for each time its viewed. Your obviously not gonna get rich using this resource, but thats not what themestreams about, its aimed at passionate ... Read review

Advantages: Self Publish, little content control, 10c per page view, some GREAT writing to actually READ!!
Disadvantages: Oh dem beta periods :o((((

In September the Preview Period on Themestream Ends. With it the 10c per page view that is now paid quarterly. The overall assumption, throughout the commercial web, seems to be that people are most drawn to extended soundbytes on bland topics. Pretty much the equivalent of the PR Features that ensure there are no empty holes to doodle on in the pages of our daily papers. I used to actually READ those pieces, when I was studying public relations ...
...I never felt the urge to read them before or since. Certainly not on the web. I wonder if anyone else ever does? The private sites that seem to draw the most hits, and repeat hits, are of a very different kind as far as I can tell. "Themestream" is an opportunity to establish and define that. For the authors it is something a little different. It is an opportunity to establish and define ourselves and our audiences. Not fantasy, there must ... Read review