This is essentially journalism à la carte: Peter Jukes offered to continue live-tweeting the News of the World phone-hacking trial if the crowd would fund it. Interest was strong enough to do just that, and his Indiegogo funders ordered up some trial coverage, funded through Christmas.

He’s probably not the first and certainly not the last, but I predict this is just the beginning of a trend and this sort of thing will be far more common in the years to come.

Correction: This blog correctly uses the same title I gave this post to describe this long-form article. So, it’s not so new, after all.

Updated: This is not true.

Angela Moscaritolo of PCMag.com reports:

In a statement, Google said it made the acquisition to “further diversify its already impressive portfolio of companies.” The Web giant did not elaborate about its motivation for the deal.

You don’t spent $400 million on something that isn’t strategically important to your business. I predict that Google WiFi will launch in 2013.