@hawkeye10,
hawkeye10 wrote:Is free content on the way out??
No. I think there's always going to be free information clogging up the Internet. The real question is, how much will people be willing to pay to have access to information which carries veracity?
The Internet Marketplace is still waiting for the dust to settle to see how much real information is worth to people. And the more the Internet becomes clogged with personal opinions and bullshit, the more the high-quality kernels of knowledge will be worth.
For example, there may come a time when everyone on the Internet sells their opinions for a penny, and we may have to pay a penny to click on someone's post on A2K, just to see what they have to say. If you really wanted an answer to something, and not just a "chat", who would you click on for a penny, and who would you ignore?