"I get worried when I can’t pay for things."

Response to Chimero (above).

"... there is one compensating advantage for the people who escape the old system: when the ecosystem stops rewarding complexity, it is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future." (The Vision 20/20 group should invite Clay Shirky to speak.)

Annual Pew report.

"There are three ways -- and only three ways -- that publishers can make money from their content." (Forget revenue models. Look for production models.)

"Rupert Murdoch is going to battle against the Internet, bent on making readers actually pay for online newspaper journalism -- beginning with his London Sunday Times. History suggests he won’t back down; the experts suggest he’s crazy. Is he also ignoring his industry’s biggest problem?"

Provocative: "Anderson: Sorry, I don't use the word media. I don't use the word news. I don't think that those words mean anything anymore. They defined publishing in the 20th century. Today, they are a barrier. They are standing in our way, like a horseless carriage."

"When the world's economy catches a sniffle, the horseflesh market starts wheezing."

"Simply put the entrepreneurs who are aggressively open in describing their plans seem to do better than the ones who are cagey."

"The internet is a copy machine."