The Musings of Faith

“My rule for ANY site receiving traffic from an aggregator of ANY kind is: If you believe you can create more value from the traffic you receive than potential negative branding implications plus the cost of supporting a potential competitor, then continue with the aggregator. If not, block the aggregator.”

“On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it’s so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.”

“A generation is now coming of age that is used to being — and demands to be — in control of their content. They want it on-demand — not necessarily in the hands of the “broadcaster” or content provider. When they want to read something, they expect to click and see text. When they want to hear something, they expect to touch and get audio. When they want to see something, we have trained them to click and get video. If “radio” (whatever that becomes in the future) can’t do all three of these things, it has no future in the digital world.”

“The Internet has taught me this: don’t be afraid of sharing your ideas. Don’t be afraid of engaging others to voice their ideas. And more importantly, don’t presume who is and who is not a creator — because we all are.”

“when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.”