Sidenote: Stewart Brand's full quote is more complex: "Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive...That tension will not go away."
The Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free
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#14So much capital movement in VC circles, don't be surprised that the gossip about it sells too.
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#15Summary: The Information is a subscription-only news publication covering Silicon Valley and the tech business. It has 10,000 subscribers and is a must-read for tech elites.
Its founder, Jessica Lessin, argues that ad revenue promotes high-volume sensationalist noise, whereas subscription revenue promotes deep journalism. Lessin is running an accelerator for subscription-only science and local news: https://www.theinformation.com/announcing-the-information-ac...
Others argue that B2B publications are easiest to run subscription-only. The Information provides exclusive business value such as earnings calls and org charts.
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#16Can I request a change of title? This is essentially an ad for The Information, a news service. I get it's a clever play on words from the famous internet phrase "information wants to be free" but many people clicking on it probably don't know that. It is pretty close to clickbait.
EDIT: not that it isn't interesting. It would just be beneficial to readers to know what they are getting into.
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#17Summary: The Information is a subscription-only news publication covering Silicon Valley and the tech business. It has 10,000 subscribers and is a must-read for tech elites. Its founder, Jessica Lessin, argues that ad revenue promotes high-volume sensationalist noise, whereas subscription revenue promotes deep journalism. Lessin is running an accelerator for subscription-only science and local news: https://www.thein…
A minor detail: "To woo [reporters], Lessin offers compensation that consists of their former base salary plus 10 percent."
AB 168 recently banned this practice in California, to make salaries more equitable.
Re: The Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free
#18Summary: The Information is a subscription-only news publication covering Silicon Valley and the tech business. It has 10,000 subscribers and is a must-read for tech elites. Its founder, Jessica Lessin, argues that ad revenue promotes high-volume sensationalist noise, whereas subscription revenue promotes deep journalism. Lessin is running an accelerator for subscription-only science and local news: https://www.thein…
A minor detail: "To woo [reporters], Lessin offers compensation that consists of their former base salary plus 10 percent." AB 168 recently banned this practice in California, to make salaries more equitable.
Link to the bill:
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...