Journal doom's Journal: Jaron Lanier's challenge: how to pay writers? 1
Jaron Lanier suggests in a New York Times op-ed that the web cannot survive on volunteerism and advertising alone,
and it's time to figure out how writers can get paid:
Pay Me for My Content;
"Affordable turns out to be much harder than free when it comes to information technology, but we are smart enough to figure it out."
So, is the time right to think about micropayments again?
Is there a market for truth? (Score:2)
It could be that the term "writing" is causing trouble. There's no shortage of wordage on the web, there's not even really a shortage of well-written wordage; what we really need to encourage is not just "writing" but other things, such as "factual research". Myself, I can't see paying to read someone spouting off about something they saw on TV, but if there was a place you could go to read just what you needed to know at the moment, with a fair assurance that what you were reading was the truth, or some