Fw: [alac] Africa Position Paper on Internet growth through content
AFRISPA, More comments on your intrenet report. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John R Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: <alice@apc.org> Cc: "ALAC" <alac@icann.org> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 4:19 PM Subject: Re: [alac] Africa Position Paper on Internet growth through content
Primarily their interest is driven by the value of content that they locate which is relevant to their lives and business.
That's surprising. Here in the U.S., despite the myth that "content is king" the reality is that what people are willing to pay for is person to person communication. See, for example http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_2/odlyzko/
Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.
Is it possible that with 'too' much content for Americans one has ample choices for needed content and therefore paying for content is out of question - therefore one is only willing to pay for person to person communication? Muriuki Mureithi -----Original Message----- From: kictanet-bounces+mureithi=summitstrategies.co.ke@kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+mureithi=summitstrategies.co.ke@kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of alice@apc.org Sent: 07 April 2006 18:20 To: mureithi@summitstrategies.co.ke Subject: [Kictanet] Fw: [alac] Africa Position Paper on Internet growththrough content AFRISPA, More comments on your intrenet report. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John R Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: <alice@apc.org> Cc: "ALAC" <alac@icann.org> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 4:19 PM Subject: Re: [alac] Africa Position Paper on Internet growth through content
Primarily their interest is driven by the value of content that they locate which is relevant to their lives and business.
That's surprising. Here in the U.S., despite the myth that "content is king" the reality is that what people are willing to pay for is person to person communication. See, for example http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_2/odlyzko/
Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.
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