הסיפור החם ב-Blogosphere השבוע הוא ללא ספק המשכו של הסיפור שכתבתי עליו כאן בשבוע שעבר על Netscape ו- Digg. תקציר האירועים:
"האתר הותיק שעבר כבר אין ספור תהפוכות, Netscape, הושק מחדש לפני זמן לא רב כאחיו התאום של Digg (מה זה?). על מנת למשוך אליו את המדרגים הכבדים, הציע Jason Calacanis, האיש העומד בראש הפרוייקט, 1000$ לכל מדרג שיערוק מ-Digg לשירות שלו. ההצעה זכתה לביקורות קשות ועוקצות מהבלוגרים המובילים כמו Michael Arrington מ-Techcrunch אשר לא חסך במילים. Jason לא נשאר חייב וענה לכולם ובמיוחד למייקל"

"I don't need to be paid to do what I do now. I will commit my time to digg whenever possible because that’s how much I enjoy digg; it’s not about the money, it’s what you enjoy and this is what I like."

You think Mike Arrington works for free? I tell you what Mike, if you're so offended by the concept of people getting paid for their work, why don't you work for free. Take down all the ads on TechCrunch and you can pay your rent in the good vibes from the Web 2.0 community. Oh… I'm sorry, you're making tens of thousands a dollars a month with your business… oh… I'm sorry. Go right ahead and tell the very talented cool hunters who find hundreds of cool things that they shouldn't get paid. Really.

So, while the elite Web 2.0 mafia may not like the concept of paying top contributors, the contributors certainly like the idea!

Web 2.0 ? Not as exciting as going from Dos to Windows. Not by a long shot.

The net hasnt made the net better. Its better pricing, capacity and performance for all the things we use to run all the applications that attach to the net that have made the net better

Flickr,MySpace, Digg, Google, Filesanywhere.com, Goowy.com, IceRocket.com, YouTube, etc, etc, all happened and have had an impact because the cost to create each of these companies have fallen to next to nothing.

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