WSJ: Giving Stuff Away on the Internet →
https://marco.org/2007/11/04/wsj-giving-stuff-away-on-the-internet
By Scott Adams, about The Dilbert Blog.
I spend about a third of my workday blogging. Thanks to the miracle of online advertising, that increases my income by 1%. I balance that by hoping no one asks me why I do it.
Later:
I’ve been watching with great interest as the band “Radiohead” pursues its experiment with pay-what-you-want downloads on the Internet. In the near term, the goodwill has inspired lots of people to pay. But I suspect many of them are placing a bet that paying a few bucks now will inspire all of their favorite bands to offer similar deals. That’s when the market value of music will approach zero.