[Air-L] micropayments . . .

[Ed Lamoureux]

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
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Bradley University
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