Comments on: Is Free the Future? http://www.b12partners.net/wp/2009/06/29/is-free-the-future/ Spreading confusion over the internet since 1994 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:08:08 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: swanksalot http://www.b12partners.net/wp/2009/06/29/is-free-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-11225 swanksalot Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:42:51 +0000 http://www.b12partners.net/wp/2009/06/29/is-free-the-future/#comment-11225 sorry about that - something not smooth with either the installation of WP, the mysql database and/or the site host (pair.com). Or something else. sorry about that – something not smooth with either the installation of WP, the mysql database and/or the site host (pair.com). Or something else.

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]]> By: hg taylor http://www.b12partners.net/wp/2009/06/29/is-free-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-11221 hg taylor Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:22:38 +0000 http://www.b12partners.net/wp/2009/06/29/is-free-the-future/#comment-11221 So you are not going to be sending me a check or anything for contributing value to this page with a reply, right... can't expect a very valuable reply then I suppose. Anderson's hypothesis seems to be that one make money charging by the letter OR by giving a way a book...and charging for the upgrade That's an alternative... do one OR do the other... an option. I can understand why not exploring an option might have value... Crest is a fine toothpaste This Colgate nonsense is just an unproven upstart... Sounds like more of a brand issue than anything else... Loyalty to Capitalism Classic is best, 2.0 is a gimmick don't bother. I don't subscribe to the New Yorker, so thank you Seth for putting me onto the FREE Malcolm Gladwell article. At the top is a citation from Anderson: “In the digital realm you can try to keep Free at bay,” Chris Anderson writes, “but eventually the force of economic gravity will win.” Gravity seems to be in effect... Elsewhere, Anderson mentions Stewart Brand who opined "On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other." Whole Earth Review (May 1985, p. 49) I don't see 'for pay' going away just because 'for free' exists. So you are not going to be sending me a check or anything for contributing value to this page with a reply, right… can’t expect a very valuable reply then I suppose.

Anderson’s hypothesis seems to be that one make money charging by the letter OR by giving a way a book…and charging for the upgrade

That’s an alternative… do one OR do the other… an option.

I can understand why not exploring an option might have value… Crest is a fine toothpaste This Colgate nonsense is just an unproven upstart…

Sounds like more of a brand issue than anything else… Loyalty to Capitalism Classic is best, 2.0 is a gimmick don’t bother.

I don’t subscribe to the New Yorker, so thank you Seth for putting me onto the FREE Malcolm Gladwell article. At the top is a citation from Anderson:
“In the digital realm you can try to keep Free at bay,” Chris Anderson writes, “but eventually the force of economic gravity will win.” Gravity seems to be in effect…

Elsewhere, Anderson mentions Stewart Brand who opined
“On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it’s so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.” Whole Earth Review (May 1985, p. 49)

I don’t see ‘for pay’ going away just because ‘for free’ exists.

]]> By: Dean W. Armstrong http://www.b12partners.net/wp/2009/06/29/is-free-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-10979 Dean W. Armstrong Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:31:34 +0000 http://www.b12partners.net/wp/2009/06/29/is-free-the-future/#comment-10979 Hi Seth--I've really enjoyed reading your recent opinions on the issue of "free", of photography and copyright and Flickr. Keep it up! I made some commentary at http://dwarmstr.blogspot.com/2009/06/intersection-of-onlinesharing-culture.html . Hi Seth–I’ve really enjoyed reading your recent opinions on the issue of “free”, of photography and copyright and Flickr. Keep it up! I made some commentary at http://dwarmstr.blogspot.com/2009/06/intersection-of-onlinesharing-culture.html .

]]> By: Long Tail theory not supported by facts at B12 Solipsism http://www.b12partners.net/wp/2009/06/29/is-free-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-10973 Long Tail theory not supported by facts at B12 Solipsism Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:50:15 +0000 http://www.b12partners.net/wp/2009/06/29/is-free-the-future/#comment-10973 [...] for all the press that Chris Anderson generated with his Long Tail book, I never heard that his thesis was actually refuted by some facts. Power of [...] [...] for all the press that Chris Anderson generated with his Long Tail book, I never heard that his thesis was actually refuted by some facts. Power of [...]

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