Friday, July 20, 2001

David Walker: Brief encore from the subscription model: "The alternative to ads or subscriptions, of course, is to concede that the Web simply supports different business models from today's print media world. The Internet content successes of today are enthusiast sites and commercial sites whose Amazon-style justification is to support transactions. Perhaps we should accept what we have, and stop expecting the media world to evolve back to its pre-Internet patterns."