Pivots, Trolls, and Blog Rolls
Reflections on 25 years of digital media.
Before the internet, what would today be called a “paywall” was just a place where people could buy a newspaper or magazine. Your subscription or newsstand purchase didn’t pay for every far-flung reporter; media outlets subsidized access to readers with advertising and other revenue streams.
But though the barrier to entry was relatively low, it was still a barrier. You had to acquire the physical object hosting the material, and unless you went to the library every day or got your hands on a discarded copy in a coffee shop, you would have to pay for it.
Once all articles got posted on websites, tension grew between the idea that
information wants to be freeand the need for reporters and editors and production teams to afford food and shelter.
Author's summary: Digital media evolution.
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