I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled between authors and readers, not advertiser.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Somebody has to pay our editors, writers, journalists, designers, developers, and all the other specialists whose passion and tears go into every chunk of worthwhile web content.
The original idea was to make it easy to publish content on the Web and find an audience. What we learned from publishers is that the thing they want the most is more readers and more revenue.
The Internet is about giving the consumer exactly what they want, whether there's an audience of one or 1,000 or 10,000, and then figuring out how to make money on it later.
I think if you make good, interesting content with compelling story lines and good characters, people will tune into the web for as long as you want them to.
There's the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they're giving to websites is used and monetized in a more clear and powerful way. That's something that probably will need government action.
As a publisher, you should decide what content is free and what you'd pay for. You have to get the packaging right, but people will pay for content.
You really can create a lot of value by putting content and distribution together, particularly if the content is cable content.
The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.
Journalism is being pushed into a space where I don't think it should ever go, where it's trying to support the monetization model of the Web by driving page views. So what you have is a drop-off of long-form journalism, because long-form pieces are harder to monetize.
I think anyone who uses the web is smart and will profit.