The Value of Information

When confronted with the necessity of offering news for free, editors are quick at pointing at the cost involved in news production. Which of course is besides the point. Information on the Internet is as common as snow in the arctic. You can’t expect Eskimos to buy a snow man. But, hey, wait, this is not just another rant with the usual talking points. After producing news site after news site for a wide range of customers, we actually have something to contribute:

While producing information costs money, information as such doesn’t necessarily carry monetary value, it mostly carries intellectual, social, artistic, practical value. And that’s why, historically, news has been commercially, publicly, politically and privately subsidized.

http://informationarchitects.jp/the-value-of-information/

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