Actually, the crowd Kurtz was talking about is people who won’t patronize pay sites; that’s not a fallacy, it’s just… what they do. And if you charge your traffic goes down. That’s not a delusion of the nameless crowd you prefer to argue with but a well established fact of life on the open web.

NO NAMES, NO LINKS: WRITERS GIVE THEMSELVES A PASS AND DENOUNCE THE “INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE” CROWD.

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2 Responses to “Quote and Comment”

1. News Feeds - pufna said on 11 January 2010 at 1:19 pm:

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   Dave Shirey said on 20 January 2010 at 10:47 am:

   ‘If you charge, your traffic will go down’.

   I have no doubt this is true. I would love to see some demographics though on who is willing to pay and who isn’t. I wonder if people who are younger, who have a different view of money and budgeting and spending from their parents generation are more willing to pay for good info? If so, that would bode well for quality in the future. Anybody know?