February 09, 2009

The Earth is Round, And Will Not Accept Micropayments

While the latest of the grizzled journalistic Flat Earthers holds forth on a comically grandiose "secret" plan to save journalism by somehow convincing online readers to pay for The New York Times–sorry, the big-name New York journalism crowd doesn't really care about how your paper survives–Mark Hamilton brilliantly fisks the Flat Earthers' micropayments fantasies. (Printies: Here's what "fisks" means. It's an online thing. You're welcome.)

Feb 9, 2009 10:02:25 AM | Business, Newspapers, The Web

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