By Peter Galuszka
The World Wide Web is a wonderful thing. It can provide useful, nearly instantaneous information, build communities and topple dictators.
It has also wreaked havoc on how journalists and commentators gather and disseminate original content. Tens of thousands of journalists have lost their jobs because the old business model that paid them has collapsed.
Blogging, fashionable for two decades ago, is, of course an offshoot of the Net. It is based on slicing and dicing other people’s original content.
Jim Bacon and I do that on this blog, but we also accomplish a lot more. We create our own original content that often is unique. Between us, we have more than eight decades of experience and hope that shows in our work.
We have been working mostly for free, but we need to pay our bills. Some blogs and Net services have paywalls or require subscriptions. We’re not asking for that, but we are requesting that you consider making a contribution so we can keep on doing what we have been.If you would like to contribute you can do so by looking at the payment icon on the upper left of the home page.
Many thanks.
