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Tuesday, 7 May 2013

The Daily Dish - Andrew throws in the towel

Posted on 11:43 by hony
Sullivan, this morning: "it remains unlikely that we will reach our target of $900,000 by the end of the year"

He goes on, ironically: "But I didn’t start this blogging thing to be rich. I started it to be free."


That's just the thing, Andrew. The internet wants to be free. When you enacted your paywall, you committed Internet Original Sin: you thought people would pay you for something they could get elsewhere for free.



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