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$185K Raised for Man Who Walks 21 Miles to Work

Detroit Free Press story on James Robertson proves life-changing

(Newser) - The Detroit Free Press ran a front-page story this weekend about a man who walks 21 miles a day to and from work—and it's proving both the power of the press and the warmth of the human heart. The story caught the attention of a student at Wayne...

Kickstarter's Most-Backed Project: Exploding Kittens

Internet's new darling has more than 107K backers with days to go

(Newser) - When last seen, Exploding Kittens had reached its $10,000 Kickstarter goal in eight minutes and zoomed right on by, racking up a hefty $1.8 million as of last Wednesday. But the Internet, apparently a big fan of "kittens and explosions and laser beams and sometimes goats,"...

The Oatmeal's Kickstarter Reaches Goal in 8 Minutes

Is currently up to $1.8M

(Newser) - The creator of popular comic website The Oatmeal launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to make a card game, and let's just say things are going well for him. " Exploding Kittens ," a Russian roulette-inspired game created by The Oatmeal's Matthew Inman along with Elan Lee and Shane...

'Operation' Inventor Needs Money for Actual Operation

Friends launch crowdfunding page for John Spinello

(Newser) - The man who asked the world to remove funny bones with tweezers at the risk of a small zap is getting a little payback from fans of his beloved game. John Spinello created the board game Operation in the early 1960s but now finds himself in need of surgery and...

What Happens to Kickstarter Projects That Don't Get Made?

Reaching funding goal is just the beginning

(Newser) - Just because a crowdfunded project reaches its donation goals doesn't mean the project will ever actually come to fruition. Instead, plenty of projects—including some that receive a lot of media hype—are stalled or perhaps canceled altogether. Ars Technica takes a look at cases like myIDkey , which pulled...

Man Seeks Donations to Keep Nickelback Away

Craig Mandell never wants to see the band play a show in London

(Newser) - It seems almost everyone dislikes Nickelback , but one London man apparently hates them more than most: Craig Mandell launched a crowdfunding campaign with the sole aim of keeping the Canadian band out of his city, Time reports. " Don't Let Nickel Back ," which is being funded on the...

On-Air Shocker: Reporter Quits in Vulgar Fashion

KTVA's Charlo Greene says she'll work for marijuana legalization, utters F-bomb

(Newser) - Reporter Charlo Greene feels passionately about marijuana legalization in the state of Alaska. So passionate, in fact, that she outed herself as the owner of the Alaska Cannabis Club in last night's 10pm news broadcast on Anchorage's KTVA, then made another shocking declaration. "[I'll] be dedicating...

Online Fundraisers for Ferguson Cop Shuttered

Tax experts reportedly trying to handle flood of Darren Wilson donations

(Newser) - Two websites raising money for the Ferguson police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown abruptly shut down over the weekend after raising more than $430,000. But the Support Officer Darren Wilson and Support Officer Wilson pages, two separate pages on the crowdsourcing site GoFundMe, weren't closed by...

Kickstarter's Most-Funded Project Is Now ... a Cooler

High-tech device with built-in blender, speaker system has raised $11M

(Newser) - Call it the Swiss Army knife of coolers—and also the most-funded Kickstarter campaign ever. The Coolest Cooler has raised nearly $11.2 million on the crowdfunding site with just one day to go, kicking the Pebble smartwatch out of the No. 1 slot, reports the Christian Science Monitor . The...

Potato Salad Project on Kickstarter Raises $17K

Zack Brown says potato salad isn't 'mean or snarky'

(Newser) - Zack Brown's Kickstarter project started with the modest goal of $10—and blossomed into an Internet darling that's already worth over $17,000. The project? A potato salad, of course. "I'm making potato salad," wrote Brown on Kickstarter . "Basically I'm just making potato...

'Citizen Scientists' Take Over Old NASA Satellite

ISEE-3 wakes up after years

(Newser) - A satellite originally launched in 1978 is getting a new lease on life after NASA stopped using it. NASA shut down the satellite, called ISEE-3, in 1997, and it's been spinning uselessly around the sun for years. But a crowdfunded team of "citizen scientists" last month got NASA'...

For $20K, George RR Martin Will Kill You

Literarily speaking, of course, and to save some wolves

(Newser) - If you happen to have $20,000 burning a hole in your pocket, George RR Martin will cut you for it. The author behind Game of Thrones will slay you with all appropriate gore—on the written page, of course—if you are a top-tier donor of his current crowdfunding...

Legal First? Lawsuit Alleges Kickstarter Scam

Washington state AG says donors got duped, deserve money back

(Newser) - The attorney general in Washington state appears to be breaking new ground on a modern malady: He's going after what he says is a bogus Kickstarter campaign that collected money and delivered nothing, reports the Seattle Times . Bob Ferguson has lodged a consumer-fraud lawsuit against the Tennessee company Altius...

Kickstarter Censored My Abortion Documentary
Kickstarter Censored My Abortion Documentary
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Kickstarter Censored My Abortion Documentary

Phelim McAleer: The site doesn't really want diversity

(Newser) - Kickstarter's founder has claimed the crowdfunding site is a place where "very diverse ideas" can come to life—but in Phelim McAleer's experience, that's far from true. McAleer, as he relates in the New York Post , wants to make a documentary about abortion doctor and convicted...

Crowdfunding Pays to Get Homeless Man Home to Jamaica

London woman's plea for 'Michael' smashes goal quickly

(Newser) - A British woman's plea on Go Fund Me to help a homeless man evidently struck a chord. Jenny Baker asked people to chip in to buy a plane ticket to help a 64-year-old man she met in Dalston achieve his one wish: to return to his native Jamaica, reports...

Odd, Marvelous 'SeaOrbiter' to Suss Out Ocean's Secrets

Jacques Rougerie to build futuristic 24-7 floating observatory

(Newser) - Jules Verne, eat your heart out. Oceanographer and "sea architect" Jacques Rougerie is spearheading the creation of a sea exploration vehicle that makes any imagined before look modest. It's called the SeaOrbiter, and it just last week passed its funding goal on the crowdfunding site KissKissBankBank —Roguerie...

Crowdfunding Goal: Find Joseph Kony

Adventurer Robert Young Pelton wants to film expedition

(Newser) - Big bureaucracies aren't the ones we should trust to track down the world's evildoers, says Canadian adventurer and writer Robert Young Pelton: Instead, we should leave it to him: Young has established a website to raise $450,000 in an effort to track down Joseph Kony , the Ugandan...

Homeless Man Who Returned $42K Gets Big Pay Off

We're talking $130K, and growing

(Newser) - Whoever said no good deed goes unpunished probably never got six figures out of the act. But turning in a lost backpack with $42,000 in cash and traveler's checks inside has paid off for Glen James, who's raked in more than $130,000 in donations from across...

New Way to Get a Caffeine Jolt: Spray It On

Startup trying to sell sprayable version

(Newser) - If you like energy drinks but hate the drinking part, then Harvard undergrad Ben Yu and venture capitalist Deven Soni have a product for you. The two are trying to launch a product called "Sprayable Energy," that, you guessed it, gives you a jolt of caffeine straight through...

Celeb Gives Fellow Celeb $10K for Kickstarter Project

Steven Soderbergh pledges to Spike Lee's film

(Newser) - Celebrities are still going on Kickstarter, asking for your money to fund their pet projects ... and now, bonus! They're getting money from other rich, famous people in the process, at least in one case. Spike Lee is trying to use the crowdfunding site to make his next movie, and...

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