When I look at the stats for this site, people seem much more interested in Shoes and in anything with the word “Rails” in it than in anything I speculate about advertising. That’s okay — don’t listen to me, listen to Dave Winer.
Wait, you’re saying, Dave’s talking about the Writer’s strike, not about advertising. That’s correct; he’s not saying a word about advertising. He is, however, talking about who gets paid.
Read it again. Think about advertising; think about content creation; think about everything changing.
Or, you know, don’t. We could always put all our eggs in the “advertising will pay for everything forever” basket and just wait until the system falls apart. Then we can complain that no one wants to buy our buggy whips anymore.
