[Air-L] micropayments . . .
Ed Lamoureux
ell at bumail.bradley.edu
Tue Aug 28 04:20:36 PDT 2007
In Online World, Pocket Change Is Not Easily Spent
By DAN MITCHELL
Published: August 27, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26 — The idea of micropayments — charging Web
users tiny amounts of money for single pieces of online content — was
essentially put to sleep toward the end of the dot-com boom. In
December 2000, Clay Shirky, an adjunct professor in New York
University’s interactive telecommunications program, wrote a
manifesto that people still cite whenever someone suggests
resurrecting the idea. Micropayments will never work, he wrote,
mainly because “users hate them.” . . . .
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/technology/27micro.html?th&emc=th
Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph. D.
Associate Professor, Multimedia Program
and Department of Communication
Co-Director, New Media Center
1501 W. Bradley
Bradley University
Peoria IL 61625
309-677-2378
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