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> fuck WP's nagwall Funny how "Fuck you, pay me" is an acceptable sentiment when you're a freelance software dev, but now when you're a journalistic institutio

> fuck WP's nagwall Funny how "Fuck you, pay me" is an acceptable sentiment when you're a freelance software dev, but now when you're a journalistic institution.

dredmorbius 9y ago
Information and markets fundamentally do not work. A topic I've addressed (and cited people who do not manifest on the Internet as Space Alien Cats, including Joseph Stiglitz) numerous times. And you can read for free! https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/search?q=information+markets&restrict_sr=on https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/search?q=information+ma... Or this yesterday on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15540536 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15540536
- s73ver_ 9y ago
  Ok. How do those journalists, web devs, publishers, photographers, etc pay their bills?
  - dredmorbius 9y ago
    That's addressed at length in the links provided.
dredmorbius 9y ago
As to the article: I've already read it. I'd clicked through to the link (from my Reddit blog) to confirm it addressed what I'd remembered. And I'm sharing it here which may drive slightly more clicks to washpo's site. But, because I got smacked by the nagwall (and again, having already read the article), no. NY Times has a similarly annoying practice of disabling copy/paste from articles (trivial to get around on various browsers, but not Chrome/Android), so I frequently point to Outline for that as well. I sympathise with the problems of publishers. But I've also done a lot of research and thinking on this, and they're fundamentally fighting a losing war. Either go fully behind a paywall (and suffer the consequences of that), go nonprofit (see ProPublica, ICIJ, NPR/PBS), find a patronage option, or ... well, I don't know. But the system we've got (and which a great many HN folk are directly participating in, as I have myself) SIMPLY. IS. NOT. WORKING. (It's one of a bunch of things that aren't working presently, though it ties in to many of the others in particularly distressing ways.)

> fuck WP's nagwall Funny how "Fuck you, pay me" is an acceptable sentiment when you're a freelance software dev, but now when you're a journalistic institution.

dredmorbius 9y ago

Information and markets fundamentally do not work. A topic I've addressed (and cited people who do not manifest on the Internet as Space Alien Cats, including Joseph Stiglitz) numerous times. And you can read for free! https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/search?q=information+markets&restrict_sr=on https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/search?q=information+ma... Or this yesterday on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15540536 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15540536

s73ver_ 9y ago
Ok. How do those journalists, web devs, publishers, photographers, etc pay their bills?
- dredmorbius 9y ago
  That's addressed at length in the links provided.

dredmorbius 9y ago

As to the article: I've already read it. I'd clicked through to the link (from my Reddit blog) to confirm it addressed what I'd remembered. And I'm sharing it here which may drive slightly more clicks to washpo's site. But, because I got smacked by the nagwall (and again, having already read the article), no. NY Times has a similarly annoying practice of disabling copy/paste from articles (trivial to get around on various browsers, but not Chrome/Android), so I frequently point to Outline for that as well. I sympathise with the problems of publishers. But I've also done a lot of research and thinking on this, and they're fundamentally fighting a losing war. Either go fully behind a paywall (and suffer the consequences of that), go nonprofit (see ProPublica, ICIJ, NPR/PBS), find a patronage option, or ... well, I don't know. But the system we've got (and which a great many HN folk are directly participating in, as I have myself) SIMPLY. IS. NOT. WORKING. (It's one of a bunch of things that aren't working presently, though it ties in to many of the others in particularly distressing ways.)