Hell to Pay
It looks like the Flickr interestingness thing is shaping up to be another honest-to-goodness blogosphere-based knock-down take-not-prisoners screaming match. Good… we haven’t had one of those for a while.
I actually wrote about this yesterday evening with one foot out the door since I didn’t see Anil’s post until I was finishing work. So I should probably be a little clearer about what my standpoint actually is, lest anyone be tempted to believe that I’m siding with Caterina. Actually, I agree with Scoble: if companies are basing their business model on monetizing their users’ high-quality media contributions, they need to give them back cold hard cash, not just a warm fuzzy feeling.
I know that a lot of people are terrified of the potential effects of real cash money sloshing around the web. Sorry kids, but that’s how the world works. If we want to take on Big Media, we have to be prepared to harness the full power of capitalism. And this doesn’t just mean advertising. For example, Flickr could charge users to download a professional-quality high-resolution version of their favorite photos, passing a slice of the booty onto the photographer. That might anathema to some, but to me it’s just a case of the web growing up. Finally.
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