Yippie ki yea, motherfucker

Someone said to me about the writing they did on the web,

"Eh, but what am I selling?"



What everyone in media has always sold: advertising.

Everyone in the 90's got all hung up on silly shit like micro-payments and selling articles.

I mean, how does radio get paid? Either the begging method, like NPR, or by selling advertising, like every other radio station.

Think of it like this: everyone has a printing press in their basement. Some print things and try to sell them. Other people print things and then sell advertising.


Most people use it to write "Fart!" in 72 point type. Occasionally a Thomas Paine comes along.

Occasionally a William Randolph Hearst comes along. I'm trying to do that.

What the people in the print industry don't know about the web could serve 5000 gigabytes a day.

Despite the mainstream media moving in to the web, it's still the wild, wild west out here. No, it's not the other side of the universe like Mondo 2000 seemed to think it would be in 94, but it's still a place you can carve out a ranch and raise cattle.