Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Paying for data (was Personal Portals)

Author:Dan Lyke
Posted:3/12/1999; 1:47:15 PM
Topic:Personal Portals
Msg #:4045 (In response to 4044)
Prev/Next:4044 / 4046

As I've been throwing together some (Perl) scripts to do this sort of thing I've been wondering about a long-term implication: How are we going to pay for this data we're extracting? Right now it's either generated as a labor of love (web logs and such) or paid for by advertisement (or at least that's the theory), but in almost every case it's easier for me to remove the ads and just present the data.

Building sites with honestly marked-up XML will make that even easier, so there's no incentive to separate the data from the markup unless giving away the data has value.

Just a concern...

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