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Any information that comes to you for free or is on a screen is an advertisement. All of it. That's the point. Do you think people spend millions and billions o
by jcstk 9mo ago
Any information that comes to you for free or is on a screen is an advertisement. All of it. That's the point. Do you think people spend millions and billions of dollars creating and maintaining a content delivery network because they just want you to know about things?
- deadbabe 9mo agoWhat if people could pay to read an advertisement?
- 6510 9mo agoAlmost as good as my idea to have people pay me to work for me. Had a great business idea just now: A tool for staged interviews! The subject and the journalist submit an equal length list of questions. Each round of the auction they bid on questions they want to include or exclude. The loser gets 50% of the points spend by the winner to be used in the next round. Both the subject and the journalists can buy additional points at any time. I keep all the money.
- sallveburrpi 9mo agoDamn so all of HN or literally every single piece of digital media has just been an advertisement all this time ?
- devinprater 9mo agoWhat are you trying to sell me again? :)
- jcstk 9mo agoHis keen eye and intellect - valuable traits as a laborer in a knowledge economy.
- jcstk 9mo agoHN is an advertisement for Y Combinator. You and I contribute content to advertise our identity and ego.
- layer8 9mo agoYour comment comes for free on my screen. :thinking_emoji:
- jcstk 9mo agoIt is an advertisement.
- etbebl 9mo agoWell, of course almost all information comes with an agenda, but perhaps the more useful distinction is whether the information is presented in good faith, i.e. is honest about the agenda (which actual advertising can also be).
- wiseowise 9mo agoSome of us grew up in a world where “journalism” used to mean something.
- jcstk 9mo agoNo, that was just good advertising in an era where there were few entities that could afford to broadcast at scale.
- erfgh 9mo agoWhat about wikipedia?
- jcstk 9mo agoThe free encyclopedia is an advertisement for a nonprofit that does a lot of things: https://wikimediafoundation.org/what-we-do/ https://wikimediafoundation.org/what-we-do/. They manage costs of producing the encyclopedia by using volunteer labor. They operate a similar model as nature documentaries that drive donations for conservation and climate groups. These are all good things - still an advertisement.
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