Forum Overview :: Rants :: The Clay Shirky / El Reg / Old Media /Actual Grumpy Old Man (Murray) circle-jerk

[quote name="Zsenitan"]<a href="http://www.dickdestiny.com/blog/2009/01/plight-of-daily-newspaper-earlier-in.html">Sarno ventures a micro-payment scheme for on-line news, an old idea which no one has ever attempted to seriously implement. The freetard is inevitably consulted, someone named Clay Shirky who is alleged to be an important person. "But even though [Shirky's] anti-micropayment manifestos have been online for years ... last week he received an unusual number of calls from reporters asking him about the theory, suggesting ... that desperate newspaper types are 'rummaging around' for revenue ideas," wrote Sarno. 'I haven’t talked to anybody about this stuff since the last recession,' he said. 'I don’t get any interest except when it’s a Hail Mary play.'”</a>[/quote]