tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post4448364462736298915..comments2023-11-05T03:20:46.695-05:00Comments on The Ostroy Report: How the Internet is Killing Our EconomyThe Ostroy Reporthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04955421147082736335noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-14139627797624311812010-05-05T08:01:44.609-04:002010-05-05T08:01:44.609-04:00Many institutions limit access to their online inf...Many institutions limit access to their online information. Making this information available will be an asset to all.research paperhttp://www.researchpaperspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-48124266428219733242009-05-25T19:59:24.390-04:002009-05-25T19:59:24.390-04:00So it is not the multi national corporations steal...So it is not the multi national corporations stealing off the top and sending American jobs to third world countries. It isn't the theft of billions of dollars by Wall St. or the Lending Institutions that are a problem. NO, it is the internet , because the idea of someone, anyone actually giving away ANYTHING for free is just ghastly. Good God , man get your head on straight.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-73146796925476332932009-05-20T14:01:19.147-04:002009-05-20T14:01:19.147-04:00A number of good points made here, taking everythi...A number of good points made here, taking everything into perspective. The Internet certainly has played a part in all of this. But . . .<br /><br />A huge reason for the demise of the "mainstream" newspapers is that the Internet has exposed them as propaganda mills for the federal government. They are as much an adjunct of the government as were their ideological siblings in Nazi Germany and the USSR. They worked overtime to lie this country into two endless genocidal pre-emptive wars of aggression against countries who couldn't represent a threat to the U.S. if they wanted to. They have monolithically demonized anybody who has the nerve to point out the absurdities and lies of the "official" 9/11 conspiracy theory. Etc., etc., ad nauseam.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-49545002186427489202009-05-15T11:01:00.000-04:002009-05-15T11:01:00.000-04:00If I am mistaken in reading this piece as satire, ...If I am mistaken in reading this piece as satire, then I worry about you, Andy. This and the last couple rants, about facebook and twitter, sound like preparatory exercises for standing on the front porch with a shotgun fulla rocksalt, shaking your fist at teenaged passersby and and hollering "damn kids!"<br /><br />The internet is, of course, not a business model. It is, rather, a world-wide public works project begun here in the States, I'm proud to say, to better humanity by facilitating information exchange. It is an encyclopedia galactica, a hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, and Carnegie's public library concept all rolled into one.<br /><br />Yes, it's possible to MAKE BIG MONEY WITH NOTHING BUT YOUR HOME COMPUTER AND THE INTERNET!-- for example, you could sell advertising space on your blog. Many do, some even are able to make a living at it.<br /><br />So really, what's the problem here?Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-85483790152340487222009-05-11T08:15:00.000-04:002009-05-11T08:15:00.000-04:00Sad to say newspapers should have never given thei...Sad to say newspapers should have never given their papers on line for free. But that genie is out of the bottle and there is no turning back.<br /><br />What worries me is that there will be no local investigations without local newspapers. If journalists and reporters are not paid, there will be no one to do the work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-71224667466826319612009-05-11T07:52:00.000-04:002009-05-11T07:52:00.000-04:00Andy - Interesting blog, but unfortunately narrow ...Andy - Interesting blog, but unfortunately narrow minded. Free sucks. For you and me. Bosses!! But for people making minimum wage, or the 8.9 percent of unemployed people across the nation, free doesn't suck at all.<br /><br />Now let's think about this for a second. First, what is it that people use to pay for that they're getting for "free" now. Information, right? Wrong. You may THINK they were paying for information, but what they were paying for something physical. Something they could hold on too. A record, a newspaper, a book. NOT the information inside it. Even if they THINK they were paying for the data, they were not. They were paying for the actual paper, vinyl, hardcover stuff that information use to come on. Even movies were more "physical". It's the EXPERIENCE. Of laughing with your friends in the theatre. Of holding that album cover. Of folding that paper as you sip your coffee.<br /><br />Now it comes digitally. It gets lost when their computer or iphone breaks or becomes obsolete. You can't really collect them or put them on a shelf. You just listen, watch it or read it and your done. <br /><br />Should it be free? Maybe not. Music figured out a pretty good way to charge for it. (iTunes.) But it should be cheap. VERY VERY VERY Cheap. Even 99 cents is too much. I acutally use a site called emusic for my tunes. Subscription. Much better.<br /><br />There's also advertising. Ads for REAL stuff that people can use and should pay for. I know ads are not making the same money as selling "stuff" use too. But tough. Business are saving money because they don't have to produce as much. "Stuff".<br /><br />At the end of the day, business people just have to not make as much money. And people should get use to not wasting as much and not consuming as much. Which in the big picture is a good thing.<br /><br />Someone moved your cheese. Find a different way to get cheese. Or just eat less.<br /><br />It's just the way it's gonna' be. Get use to it. <br /><br />-BarneyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-75168702475802276492009-05-11T07:32:00.000-04:002009-05-11T07:32:00.000-04:00Here comes the inevitable criticism of a blogger b...Here comes the inevitable criticism of a blogger bemoaning free internet content.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-86418522038711629692009-05-11T07:00:00.000-04:002009-05-11T07:00:00.000-04:00"capitalism and free are about as successful a mar..."capitalism and free are about as successful a marriage as Karl Rove and Queer Eye's Carson Kressley."<br /><br />Never saw the show, but I wouldn't doubt Karl's a queer. And maybe the problems not "free" it's "capitalism". Just a thought.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-56689654030203147352009-05-10T23:46:00.000-04:002009-05-10T23:46:00.000-04:00The sharing of information is the real enemy.
The ...The sharing of information is the real enemy.<br />The Internet is unlocking minds at an exponential rate.<br />Keep it free.BALLS AND MY WORD™https://www.blogger.com/profile/15466164707536226077noreply@blogger.com