Jon Hickey

Mashable reports that the New York Times might start charging for their web content.  I’m skeptical this model will actually work, since there are so many other options for news.  However, I also wonder what the impact of big news sources like the New York Times closing off their service will be for quality discussion [...]

Image via Wikipedia In Bill Wasik’s talk about modern media, he claims shorter content will always be free.  In the talk, the content he was referring to was written content.  Longer content, such as e-books delivered via Amazon’s Kindle, are becoming more popular, even though you have to pay for them.  Short content, however, has [...]