Paid content online: debate with Joerg Colberg, prompted by MediaStorm's PPS scheme
In our respective posts on MediaStorm's Pay Per Story scheme (links in first two tweets below) Joerg Colberg and I take different approaches to how you frame the challenge. But both of was want to see good cultural and political work done, supported, and valued, in all senses of that word.
The debate on @MediaStorm’s Pay Per Story scheme is throwing up some important issues. bit.ly/LEQ05Z- @jmcolberg offers his take on @MediaStorm and paid content here jmcolberg.com/weblog/2012/06… I disagree with a key part of this, which is fine.
- "This is about [failed] business models, not morals," says Mike Masnick of Techdirt, and I agree. bit.ly/LJDUZd
- Contra to @jmcolberg I don't think many are 'pussyfooting' around issue of free/paid jmcolberg.com/weblog/2012/06…
- What is the action that flows from making paid content a question of morality? @jmcolberg
@davidc7 @FlakPhoto Online culture is a bit unfair to less energetic artists, but life is unfair and we must learn to deal with it- @retorta @FlakPhoto Yes, we have to deal with it. Time for realism, not wishing things were otherwise. Challenge is how we cope now.
- @LowerClaptonRd Triumph, it's a good example. Don't think they blamed their customers though did they? No, got on with new products.
- "...it's important to support culture. But my focus is on what's working in today's market." This is realism. bit.ly/MthwnG
