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Article summary:

Michael Arrington hates reading his email and thinks you should pay him to read it. Enter a service called Attention Acution that gives you a special inbox and let’s people know how many emails you have in your inbox and place a bid to have you read their email. If you read their email then you get paid. Apparently the site is buggy and doesn’t work all the time so it’s unlikely it will take off.

http://hnsummary.com/2010/03/29/get-paid-to-read-your-email/