Your gonna pay for that!
Posted by matt on 21 Jul 2006 | Tagged as: Newspapers, advertising, media, journalism, blogs, sales, business, scottkarp, attention, gestures, google, openacs, philipgreenspun, citizenjournalism, economy
Around six or seven years ago the subject of free site vs. subscriber-based was a big one. Big surprise that I have never waivered from free.
But I just realized how ahead of the game I was back then when I said to one editor, “we may want to charge different rates, because some of the site-users will be causing a drain on us, but others will be contributing. ya know what I mean?”
“No,” she said, which was understandable since we didn’t have forums of any kind at the time.
On a side note, at that time I was pushing for the company to adopt the Arsdigita Community System (see OpenACS ), and I admit that my notion of “paying contributors” was heavily influenced by Philip Greenspun.
Scott Karp seems to be thinking that the time has come to pay the users.
What a great way to promote Citizen Journalism (or whatever you want to call hyper-local-non-journalist-majors-traditional-media-aggregated-content)
For less than one yearly salary (I hope!) a news company could pay for ten local blog posts a day at ten bucks a piece.
10 X 10 X 365 = $36,500
Fifteen bucks if a photo, audio or video is included, of course. ; )
But really, we should just let the bloggers keep all the Google ad money, even though we might be driving traffic, and figure we’ll make it up at a higher level of long term relationship marketing.
In other words, they get the nickle and dimes and we get the gesture and attention data for the big payoff.
Sounds perfectly fair to me.
[B2E2 Indo Royals American Co.Ltd.Mr.Eajaz shaikh, cyanamid child: Hi Hello Dear American President mr.Bush sir, aap ko any inforamtion malum hai, boleto, india mai or south gujarat mai, or kitne mafia don hai mumbai mai bhi kitne mafia don hai, any inforamtion, black list mafia don india& pakistan or mr.Bush sir aap well exp: or was old business mans american hai, or kiya aap ko south gujarat mai city:valsad/Atul mai mr.Nazim kazi or middel war Mr.Rafan kazi canada yeh dono ke black list names aap ko malum hai, lekin kaise Mr.Bush sir aap to usa mai hai? Mr.Bush sir: muje malum hai any mafia don ki any inforamtion, Cyanamid American& Indian co.Ltd. joh Atul villages mai ti beta childs mr.Eajaz boy waha se mr.bush sir ko any mafia don kazi villages ke any news malum hai. Mr.Eajaz shaikh: woh yes mai jara bhul gaya ta ki cyanamid American& Indian co.ltd. villages: Atul parnera mai chalu hogayi oh yes now,yani aap ko mr.bush sir any inforamtion malum south gujarat, city: valsad. mr.Bush sir: ok beta Mr.Eajaz shaikh, tumara careers or education or collages technology usa&uk study ke vichar karo beta yeh mafia don ke vichar tumare brain se nikalo beta Mr.Eajaz boy mai American President Mr.Bush sir, hu na or mafia don ki wars mere usa&uk govts ke shaath hai, beta tume mr.Eajaz apni life apna careers or education ko dekhna hai,( congress& BJP govts ko or Mr.Raman desai Atul villages wale ko mr.Bush sir ke dekhna hai ok yes bolo mr.eajaz baba: oh yes now speed life my careers& education follow my usa&uk visa hurry up ready. thank you very much.
Dear Sir,
I don’t know you sir, but the only thing that i would like to know from you is the complete adress of the mafia don of south gujarat “Mr Nazim Kazi as I have a serious property dispute in Surat over 7 crore.I would like to sell this property to mr kazi or through him I would like to dispose it.
Mannu
maanbhatia@hotmail.com
maanbhatia@yahoo.co.in