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No; because he seems to be convinced that the advertising-funded revenue model is the only viable source of funding for content providers. I can think of quite
by cstross 15y ago
No; because he seems to be convinced that the advertising-funded revenue model is the only viable source of funding for content providers.
I can think of quite a few other support frameworks for content creators -- some within the capitalist system, some outside it.
(My take is that almost all advertising sucks, from a consumer point of view, because it's designed to steal the consumer's attention from the item that drew it in the first place. At its worst, it becomes as unwelcome as spam. After all, we've only got 168 hours in any given week to pay attention to stuff: ads steal the only thing from us that money can't buy, and that's time.)
- dorian-graph 15y agoWould you mind linking to some resources about alternative revenue models? I've never been a fan of ads and I'n curious as to other viable alternatives.
- mdaniel 15y agoI pay via Readability and ( while I'm no expert) I think that is a good balance between the content producers need to feed their kids and my aversion to irrelevant ads.
- sbierwagen 15y agoMight want to change that to "he (eropple)" there. I started typing out an enraged response here before I figured out that you were talking about him, not idlewords.
- danparsonson 15y agoAh thank you - that completely threw me!
- seldo 15y agoAt this point I should probably just stop talking, but I don't see how my comments indicate that I think advertising is the only way for content providers to make money. I said it was a very popular way, and that popularity has affected the way URLs are formed.