Is it to late to change the TV model incumbents>

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

________________________________________
From: DV Henkel-Wallace [david () abscott com]
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 11:49 AM
To: jpn213 () gmail com
Cc: David Farber; Bob Frankston
Subject: Re: [IP] THE IMPACT ON ADVERTISEMENT ON THE NET -- Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Trafficj

Wow, pay a little extra and eliminate flash from the web?  I guess
there's a silver lining in every cloud!

Of course if charging by the bit really causes people to protest the
ads then the ISP will start selling the ads directly and not count
them against the bandwidth cap.  Just lay another hack upon a crock
upon a ...

The whole model of using the incumbents who think of the Internet as
"tv with a buy button" is utterly broken.  Is it too late to fix it?

Grump


On Jun 16, 2008, at 5:11, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:

> I can see it now, byte free advertisement? Gets more and more
> complicated. djf
>
> From: Jeff Nye [jpn213 () gmail com]
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008

> How many people will be willing to pay to download an annoying flash
> ad or animated gif?
>
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 7:42 PM, DAVID FARBER <dave () farber net> wrote:
> > Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Traffic



-------------------------------------------
Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now
RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/
Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com