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The Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free
- ryanworl 9y agoThey also have a podcast which covers their biggest stories of the week with interviews of reporters who wrote them. It is free and not very long, so if you like podcasts I would check it out.
- DaggerDagger 9y agoName or Link?
- PatrickAppel 9y agoThe Information's 411
- ateesdalejr 9y agoDon't want to give away email to anybody so is the first part of the article the gist of things?
- bllguo 9y agohttps://outline.com/kngJrL https://outline.com/kngJrL if you want to read the entire article
- kornish 9y agoThanks for sharing! Really enjoyed the article.
- jay_kyburz 9y agoirony.
- argentenergy 9y agouse a mailinator.com address if you want to quickly browse something :)
- argentenergy 9y agoSomething requiring an email address in exchange for access, that is
- matthberg 9y agoThe original 10 minute mail was my favorite, I forget which one it is among the clones, but a great service.
- paulcnichols 9y agoThe meta lesson of this article is an example of decent content marketing.
- wrs 9y agoBack in the day, we had Esther Dyson's Release 1.0, which similarly had a limited but very influential audience who paid for the rather pricey subscription, and was published in an archaic medium (email is the new paper, I guess).
- breck 9y agoSidenote: Stewart Brand's full quote is more complex: "Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive...That tension will not go away."
- gech 9y agoSo much capital movement in VC circles, don't be surprised that the gossip about it sells too.
- allenz 9y agoSummary: The Information is a subscription-only news publication covering Silicon Valley and the tech business. It has 10,000 subscribers and is a must-read for tech elites. Its founder, Jessica Lessin, argues that ad revenue promotes high-volume sensationalist noise, whereas subscription revenue promotes deep journalism. Lessin is running an accelerator for subscription-only science and local news: https://www.theinformation.com/announcing-the-information-accelerator https://www.theinformation.com/announcing-the-information-ac... Others argue that B2B publications are easiest to run subscription-only. The Information provides exclusive business value such as earnings calls and org charts.
- allenz 9y agoA minor detail: "To woo [reporters], Lessin offers compensation that consists of their former base salary plus 10 percent." AB 168 recently banned this practice in California, to make salaries more equitable.
- dwaltrip 9y agoLink to the bill: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB168 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
- noobermin 9y agoCan I request a change of title? This is essentially an ad for The Information, a news service. I get it's a clever play on words from the famous internet phrase "information wants to be free" but many people clicking on it probably don't know that. It is pretty close to clickbait. EDIT: not that it isn't interesting. It would just be beneficial to readers to know what they are getting into.